Loudon Wainwright, Jr.

Loudon Wainwright, Jr.

Loudon Snowden Wainwright, Jr. (November 16, 1924 Social Security Death Index [http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi] ] -December 12, 1988) was an American writer. He was the father of folk singer Loudon Wainwright III, singer Sloan Wainwright and grandfather to Rufus Wainwright. [ [http://www.sloanwainwright.com/familytree.html family tree] on Sloan Wainwright's web site]

Education

Loudon Wainwright, Jr. graduated from St. Andrew's School, Middletown, Delaware in 1942 ["1942 Criss Cross", p. 20, St. Andrews School Publications] , and attended and graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After college, Wainwright served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Career

Wainwright joined the staff of "Life" magazine and worked in a variety of positions over the years. In 1964 he began writing "The View From Here", a regular column in the magazine which appeared until the magazine ceased weekly publication in 1972. From 1969 on he also served as assistant managing editor. ["Contemporary Authors" vol. 127 (1989), Trosky, Susan M., ed, Gale Research Inc., p. 470]

When "Life" resumed publication as a monthly in 1978, he joined its staff as an editor, and continued to contribute to its pages after retiring from that position in 1985. After his death, the magazine published a retrospective in the February 1989 issue with excerpts from some of the two hundred columns he had written for it over the years. ["Books of the Times", "New York Times", December 11, 1986, Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DB173DF932A25751C1A960948260&sec=&pagewanted=all] accessed 26 Sept. 2006]

Wainwright was also the author of "The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of Life", an informal history of the magazine. [ibid.]

Death

Wainwright died of colon cancer on December 12, 1988 at age 64.

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