Philip Stack

Career

He is known for contributing sonnets to Walter Winchell"s widely-syndicated Hearst Newspapers column and was also known as the quatrain-writer for Vargas drawings in Esquire. On March 4, 1948, when he was 47 years old and after battling depression for many years, Philip Stack jumped to his death from the 12th floor of his Manhattan studio at the Goodhue House Apartments. His final contribution to Walter Winchell"s column, titled Summary and containing Don Wahn"s last despairing lines, was published one day later.

Interests

• Writers

  In 1932, Liveright published his book of love poems titled "Love in Manhattan." In 1936 his poem "Admonition" (as Philip Stack) was published by Doubleday in The Best Loved Poems of the American People and the book received a re-printing in 2008.