- 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 Americanwriter . He was the father of folk singerLoudon Wainwright III , singerSloan Wainwright and grandfather toRufus 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 toPhi Beta Kappa . After college, Wainwright served in theU.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 onDecember 12 ,1988 at age 64.References
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