Background
He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888.
He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888.
Alden"s brother, Eric South. Hatch, was a writer on the staff of The New Yorker and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his book 1101 Park Avenue that became a hit film under the title My Manitoba Godfrey. Born in New York City, Alden Hatch was the author of more than 40 books A fan of Thoroughbred horse racing, in 1938 he collaborated with Foxhall Keene on a biography of the late James R. Keene, the renowned horseman and owner of Castleton Farm.
Hatch also co-authored The Circus Kings with Henry Ringling North.ruary
Alden Hatch is the father of Denison (Denny) Hatch, a copywriting expert, author, and former editor-in-chief of Target Marketing magazine.
Following a brief illness, he died at age seventy-six at his winter home in Sarasota, Florida. Alden Hatch"s personal typist for many years was Ruth Townsend of Cedarhurst New New York
She began typing Mr. Hatch"s manuscripts in her home in Cedarhurst in the early 1950s, and continued typing his books into the 1970s.
When Mr. Hatch moved from Cedarhurst, New York to Sarasota, Florida, Ruth Townsend continued to type his manuscripts that were mailed from Florida to New New York (from Stockton Townsend, son of Ruth Townsend)
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