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Joseph Hergesheimer (February 15, 1880 – April 25, 1954) was an American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.
Joseph Hergesheimer (born Feb. 15, 1880, Philadelphia—died April 25, 1954, Sea Isle City, N.J., U.S.) was an American author whose novels are typically concerned with the decadent and sophisticated milieu of the very wealthy.
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Joseph Hergesheimer was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy. He established an early reputation with his first novel The Lay Anthony in 1914.
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- April 25, 1954
- February 15, 1880
Joseph Hergesheimer (hûr´gəshī´mər), 1880–1954, American novelist, b. Philadelphia. He first achieved literary distinction with the publication of The Three Black Pennys (1917).
The danger is not that Joseph Hergesheimer will lower his. ideals, nor in anything alter what he wishes to communicate; but is the fact that he must attempt to transmit these things into the vernacular and into the orbits of thought of his enor. mous audience, with the immaculate motive of making his ideas.
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