- Eric Hodgins
Eric Hodgins (1899-1971) was the American author of the popular Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, illustrated by
William Steig .Hodgins graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an engineering degree, and served as editor in chief of
The Youth Companion , associate editor ofRedbook , and then as associate editor ofFortune magazine, where he wrote an expose of the European munitions makers, "Arms and the Men."He became publisher of Fortune in 1937, and a vice president of Time Inc. in 1938. He quit Time Inc. in 1946 to write full time.
His novels also included a sequel, "Blandings Way", published in 1950.
John_Kenneth_Galbraith mentions [A Life in Our Times (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981) p. 266] that he said he had graduated from MIT with a degree conditional on a promise to never practice any form of engineering. There is no listing for an Eric Hodgins in the MIT Alumni Directory [http://alum.mit.edu/] but the MIT newspaper The Tech mentions that he is class of 1922 [http://www-tech.mit.edu/V47/PDF/N38.pdf]Footnotes
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