Background
Winkler, John Kennedy was born on February 3, 1891 in Camden, South Carolina, United States. Son of Cornelius Lawrence and Sarah Doby (Kennedy) Winkler.
Winkler, John Kennedy was born on February 3, 1891 in Camden, South Carolina, United States. Son of Cornelius Lawrence and Sarah Doby (Kennedy) Winkler.
Public schools and high schools of South Carolina. and New New York
Member staff New York American, 1908-1925. War correspondent in Mexico, 1914. Magazine writer and biographer since 1925.
European magazine assignments, 1926.
Author of a series of “Profiles,” biographies of famous people, appearing in The New Yorker, 1926-1931. Author: Hearst: An American Phenomenon, 1928.
John Doctorate., A Portrait in Oils, 1929. Morgan, The Magnificent, 1930.
Incredible Carnegie, 1931.
Woodrow Wilson: The Manitoba Who Lives On, 1933. The First Billion: The Stillmans and the National City Bank, 1934. The du Pont Dynasty, 1935.
Mind Explorers (with Walter Bromberg, Doctor of Medicine), 1938.
Five and Ten: The Fabulous Life of F. West. Woolworth, 1940. Tobacco Tycoon: The Story of James Buchanan Duke, 1942.
William Randolph Hearst, A New Appraisal, 1955. The Great Manipulator (biography Thomas F. Ryan).
Special writer, Hearst newspapers, 1957.
Contributor articles and fiction to Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Liberty, Red Book, Saturday Evening Post, et cetera Home: 49 Bayview Avenue, Portuguese Washington, New New York
Member staff New York American, 1908-1925.
Married Marion Worthington Marsh.