Background
Street, Julian was born on April 12, 1879 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Arthur Wray and Mary Ross (Low) Street.
Street, Julian was born on April 12, 1879 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Arthur Wray and Mary Ross (Low) Street.
Educated Chicago public schools and Ridley College Preparatory, Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
He was a reporter on the New York Mail and Express (later Evening Mail) in 1899 and had charge of its dramatic department in 1900-1901. His writings, characterized by a rather obvious but yet a genuine sense of humor, include:
My Enemy the Motor (1908)
The Need of Change (1909. Second edfition, 1914)
Paris à la Carte (1912)
Ship-Bored (1912)
The Goldfish (1912)
Welcome to Our City (1913)
Abroad at Home (1914): A book of "American impressions" written after Street travelled "some five thousand miles and visited twenty cities" within his country.
American Adventures: A Second Trip "Abroad at Home".
(1917)
Tides (1926)
He made contributions to magazines. The story was adapted as the 1926 West.C. Fields silent film, So"s Your Old Manitoba
In 1915 he published a book on Theodore Roosevelt, called The Most Interesting American. He is credited with being the art critic who wrote that the painting exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show by Marcel Duchamp called Nude Descending a Staircase, resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory."
Street moved to Princeton in the 1920s.
The university houses his manuscript collection and a library is named after him there.
Member National Institute of Arts and Letters. Clubs: Colonial (Princeton).
Married Ada Hilt, January 13, 1900 (died July 1926). Married second, Marguerite Skibeness, May 12, 1930. Children: Julian Leonard, Rosemary Hale.