John Northern Hilliard

John Northern Hilliard

John Northern Hilliard (born Palmyra, New York State, 1872, died March 14, 1935) was the author of a best-selling book on on magic, "Greater Magic".

Through Eugene Field he obtained at the age of 17 his first job as a reporter on the "Chicago Press". He covered the Chicago Fair in 1893, the surrender of Sitting Bull, and the bloody rustlers war in Wyoming.

After moving to the "New York Telegram" he met magician Howard Thurston and became interested in magic himself. In 1925 he joined Thurston's magic show as an advance man and for the next 10 years toured America, meeting the most talented magicians of his day and recording their creations. He "edited" T. Nelson Downs's book "The Art of Magic"; he is generally considered to be its author. After his sudden death in 1935 his book, "Greater Magic", was posthumously published by Thurston and publisher Carl W. Jones in 1938.


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