Herbert Kubly

Herbert Oswald Nicholas Kubly (26 April 1915 – 7 August 1996) [Ancestry.com. "Social Security Death Index" [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.] was an American author and playwright. He received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1956 for his first book, "American in Italy".

Biography

"Nick" Kubly was born and raised on a farm in the Swiss American community of New Glarus, Wisconsin. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism in 1937. His first professional work as a journalist was for the "Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph". [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v39i1.p0086 In the Alumni World] ", "The Wisconsin Alumnus", November 1937, p. 84.] He later wrote for the "New York Herald Tribune". [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v44i2.p0082 Trailing the Badgers] ", "The Wisconsin Alumnus", February 1943, p. 176.]

His first play, "Men to the Sea", was produced on Broadway in 1944. [ [http://www.ibdb.com/ Internet Broadway Database] .] Between 1945 and 1947 he served as the music critic for "Time" magazine. [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v46i9.p0021 Trailing the Badgers] ", "The Wisconsin Alumnus", June 15, 1945, p. 21.] ["Writer Kubly Dies", "Wisconsin State Journal", August 9, 1996, p. 1-B.]

In 1950 Kubly became an associate professor of speech at the University of Illinois, [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v51i3.p0030&isize=M With the Classes] ", "Wisconsin Alumnus", December 1949, p. 30.] but he left that position to accept a Fulbright grant to Italy, where he spent 18 months in 1950–1951. [Port of New York, passenger list of the S.S. "Constitution", December 24, 1951, list 3.] [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v57i12.p0039 Badger Bookshelf] ", "Wisconsin Alumnus", April 15, 1956, p. 39.] He taught creative writing at San Francisco State College in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1984, he was an English professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v69i5.p0022 Herbert Kubly Appointed English Professor at Parkside] ", "Wisconsin Alumnus", February 1968, p. 22–23.]

He married Emily Lee Hill in 1989. [Ancestry.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1973-1997" [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.] He died in New Glarus at age 81. ["Herb Kubly, 81; Wrote About Italy", "The New York Times", August 13, 1996, p. B6.]

Books

* "American in Italy" - 1955
* "Easter in Sicily" - 1956
* "Varieties of Love" (stories) - 1958
* "Italy" (Life World Library) - 1961
* "The Whistling Zone" (novel) - 1963
* "At Large" (autobiographical) - 1964
* "Switzerland" (Life World Library) - 1964
* "Gods and Heroes" - 1969
* "The Duchess of Glover" (novel) - 1975
* "Native's Return" - 1981
* "The Parkside Stories" - 1985

Plays

* "Men to the Sea" - 1944:The story concerns the wives of five sailors, who live at a boarding house in Brooklyn, New York while their husbands are away at sea.
* "Inherit the Wind", with Waldemar Hansen - 1946:A psychological drama set in Philadelphia in 1903. A production opened in London circa 1948. [" [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v49i5.p0033&q1=Herbert%20Kubly Playwright Scores Again] ", "The Wisconsin Alumnus", February 1948, p. 33.] (Not the play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.)
* "Punch and Judy" - 1948:About the United Nations and the possibility of world organization.
* "The Cocoon" - 1954:Produced in London.
* "Beautiful Dreamer" - 1956:A comedy about a striptease artist trying to escape the police.
* "Virus" - 1973:Produced at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside [ [http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/readers/WLAC/Notable/Notable1984.html#Herbert 1984 Notable Wisconsin Authors] , Wisconsin Library Association.]

Further reading

* "Current Biography Yearbook". 1959 edition. H.W. Wilson Co., 1959.
* "Contemporary Authors". Volumes 5-8, 1st revision. Gale Research, 1969.
* "Who Was Who in America". Volume 12, 1996-1998. Marquis Who's Who, 1998.

External links

* Herbert Kubly, " [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,933544,00.html 101 Years of Yodeling] ", "Time".
* Herbert Kubly, " [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.v66i2.p0012 Discovering America] ", "Wisconsin Alumnus".

References