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William Marion Reedy was born on December 11, 1862 in St. Louis, Missouri, one of three sons of Patrick Reedy, a police captain, and his wife, Ann (Marion).
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William Marion Reedy was born on December 11, 1862 in St. Louis, Missouri, one of three sons of Patrick Reedy, a police captain, and his wife, Ann (Marion).
After passing through public school, Reedy entered Christian Brothers' College, and thence went to St. Louis University, where he graduated, at the age of eighteen, with the degree of master of accounts.
Being minded to devote himself to literature, he became a reporter on the Missouri Republican, where his style, picturesque and unfailingly interesting, marked him for promotion at an early date. He found the newspaper field too narrow, however, and accordingly took to free-lance work, contributing frequently to Brann's Iconoclast, of Waco, Texas, and to the Sunday Mirror of St. Louis. The owner of this journal, James Campbell, watched the progress of young Reedy with interest, in 1893 put him into the editorial chair of his weekly, and in 1896 made him a present of the Mirror.
At that time Reedy combined the genial improvidence of a Richard Steele with the polish of an Addison and the humor of a Charles Lamb. Later, he achieved an incisiveness akin to Hazlitt's and the historical sweep of a Landor. He published in book form a novel, The Imitator (1901), and three short essays.
The latter, which show him as a master of prose style, comprise The Law of Love (1905), which originally appeared in Brann's Iconoclast, and A Golden Book and The Literature of Childhood (1910), written for the Mirror. Otherwise, his best work is contained in the thirty volumes of Reedy's Mirror, as it came to be called. He gave all he had to the readers of his weekly - articles, essays, and editorials dealing with matters political, religious, social, ethical, artistic, cultural, much that was quietly humorous.
All his writing was marked by grace and distinction, and his historical trustworthiness was usually beyond question. Fired by Henry George's Progress and Poverty, he emphasized on every occasion the evils of land monopoly.
He died suddenly in San Francisco, where he had gone to attend the Democratic National Convention of 1920.
The files of Reedy's Mirror reveal the gradual growth of the editor. Beginning as a society journal, the paper became under Reedy's management a link between the cultures of East and W. As a literary and critical journal it came to be known over the English-speaking world, and during the last ten years of its existence it was a theater in which many writers who have since won fame found their first audience. Reedy was impresario for many - Zoe Akins, Babette Deutsch, Fannie Hurst, Edgar Lee Masters, Julia Peterkin, John Gould Fletcher, Sara Teasdale, Orrick Johns, John Hall Wheelock, Yone Noguchi - and was one of the first to introduce to American readers such literary lights as Lord Dunsany, Cunninghame Graham, Conrad, Galsworthy, and the Sitwells. Also, quite early in his career, he exhibited the enthusiasm for art which characterized his life, and thenceforth gave publicity to many young artists.
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Raised in the Catholic faith, he severed his connections with the church but always held aloof from religious controversy and disputes.
Politically he was a liberal full of sympathy for humanity, though when labor troubles were to the fore his sympathy was always tempered by a logical sense of justice. Thus there were times when he seemed to reverse his own judgments, in both economic and literary matters, but such change of opinion was the result of honest conviction based on fresh viewpoints, and a passion for justice.
High-spirited, frank and generous, he was a favorite in St. Louis society, and perhaps his reputation as a wit somewhat interfered with his literary aims and aspirations.
He was married three times. His first wife he divorced; his second wife, Lalitte Bauduy, died in 1901; in 1909, he married Mrs. Margaret Helen Chambers, who survived him.
