Henry Cuyler Bunner

Henry Cuyler Bunner

Henry Cuyler Bunner (3 August 185511 May 1896) was an American novelist and poet born in Oswego, New York.

He was educated in New York City. From being a clerk in an importing house, he turned to journalism, and after some work as a reporter, and on the staff of "The Arcadian" (1873), he became in 1877 assistant editor of the comic weekly "Puck". He soon assumed the editorship, which he held until his death in Nutley, New Jersey. He developed "Puck" from a new struggling periodical into a powerful social and political organ. In 1886 he published a novel, "The Midge", followed in 1887 by "The Story of a New York House". But his best efforts in fiction were his short stories and sketches "Short Sixes" (1891), "More Short Sixes" (1894), "Made in France" (1893), "Zadoc Pine and Other Stories" (1891), "Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories" (1896), and "Jersey Street and Jersey Lane" (1896). His verses "Airs from A ready and Elsewhere" (884), containing the well-known poem, "The Way to Arcady; Rowen" (1892); and "Poems" (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews, displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship. He also wrote clever "vers de société" and parodies. One of his several plays (usually written in collaboration), was "The Tower of Babel" (1883).

His short story "Zenobia's Infidelity" was made into a feature film called "Zenobia" starring Harry Langdon and Oliver Hardy by the Hal Roach Studio in 1939.

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*gutenberg author | id=Henry_Cuyler_Bunner | name=Henry Cuyler Bunner
* [http://librivox.org/short-story-collection-001/ Free audio recording of "The Nice People"] from [http://www.librivox.org Librivox]
* [http://slapcast.com/users/revry Some H. C. Bunner stories, including 'What Mrs. Fortescue Did' and 'Zenobia's Infidelity' are read in Mister Ron's Basement] Podcast


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