George Horace Lorimer
| George Horace Lorimer | |
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Lorimer in 1922
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| Born | Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| Died | Wyncote, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist, Author, Editor |
| Known for |
The Saturday Evening Post Curtis Publishing Company |
George Horace Lorimer (October 6, 1867 – October 22, 1937) was an American journalist and author. He is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American writers, e.g. Jack London.
Lorimer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the Rev. George C. Lorimer and Belle Burford Lorimer. He attended Moseley High School in Chicago, Colby College, and Yale University. In 1899 he became editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post, and remained in charge until the last day of 1936, about a year before his death from throat cancer. He served also as vice president, president, and chairman of Curtis Publishing Company, which publishes the Post.
In the early 1900s Lorimer published several books, including
its sequel
and
The Letters from a Self-Made Merchant was a quite well known book in the early 20th century. In Dorothy Sayers's "Whose Body?" (1923), a copy of the book, in a Morocco binding, is mentioned as being at the bedside of a self-made British financier.
The remains of Lorimer's estate in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, is now the campus of Ancillae Assumpta Academy. Most of Lorimer Park, a 213-acre (0.86 km2) public park located in Abington Township, Pennsylvania, was a bequest from the Lorimer family to the citizens of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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