Paul Eldridge

American poet (1888–1982)

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Paul Eldridge (May 5, 1888 - July 26, 1982[1]) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher.

The son of Leon and Jeanette Eldridge (née Lafleur), he was born in Bucharest, Romania on May 5, 1888[2] and immigrated with his family to the United States on August 15, 1900.[2] He later married a fellow writer, Sylvette de Lamar (author of a 1932 novel Jews With the Cross[3]). He received his B.S. from Temple University in 1909, his A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911,[4] and a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1913. He was a teacher of romance languages at the high school level in New York until his retirement in 1945.[5] He was a lecturer on American Literature at the Sorbonne in 1913 and at the University of Florence in 1923.[6] He later was an instructor of English literature at Saint John's College in Philadelphia, from 1910-1912, and was a member of the Authors' and Dramatists' League of the Authors' Guild of America.[6]

He is best known for collaborating with the American decadent novelist and poet George Sylvester Viereck, who was imprisoned as a Nazi agent in the 1940s,[7] on a trilogy of exotic fantasy novels from 1928 to 1932, My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, Salome: the Wandering Jewess and the Invincible Adam. A highly prolific author, many of his later books were published by E. Haldeman-Julius in his "Big Blue Books" series. He died at the age of 94 in a New York City nursing home on July 26, 1982.[5]

## Bibliography

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* Life Throbs (1911)
* Vanitas (1920)
* And the Sphinx Spoke (1921) [5]
* Our Dead Selves: Anthology of the Lowly (1923)
* Irony and Pity: a Book of Tales (1926)
* The Intruder (1928)
* My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1928)
* Salome: the Wandering Jewess (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1930)
* Cobwebs and Cosmos (1930)
* The Invincible Adam (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1932)
* One Man Show (1933)
* Prince Pax (With George Sylvester Viereck, 1933)
* If After Every Tempest (1941)
* Madonna with the Cat: a Romantic Satire (1942)
* Horns of Glass (1943)
* He Who Loved His Neighbors and Other Stories (1945)
* I Bring a Sword (1945)
* Lanterns in the Night (1945)
* Lovers' Gifts and Other Stories (1945)
* The Last Supper of Marianne and Other Stories (1945)
* The Truth About Phyllis Warren and Other Stories (1945)
* Virgins and Other Stories (1945)
* Women Ain't No Fools and Other Stories (1945)
* Leaves From the Devil's Tree: A Smiling Cynic Looks at the Passing Show (1946)
* New York: This Whale of a City (1946)
* New York: The Empire State (1946)
* Two Lessons in Love: Master of hearts; Mr. Lowell and the Goddess (1946)
* A Lesson in Love (1946)
* Gamblers in Love and Other Stories (1946)
* Leaves from the Devil's Tree: a Smiling Cynic Looks at the Passing Show (1946)
* Men and Women: Stories of Love (1946)
* The Greatest Show on Earth: the Diary of a New York High School Teacher (1946)
* The Hudson: The River of Destiny 1946)
* The Jester's Holiday : a Divine Comedy (1946)
* The Way of Men with Maids and Other Stories (1946)
* Virtue, Beware! And Other Stories (1946)
* And Thou Shalt Teach Them (1947)
* Misadventure in Chastity: Antics and Romantics (1947)
* One Night: a Novel of Love in Nova Scotia (1947)
* The Whip and the Rose (1947)
* The Bed Remains: a Biography in Ten Chapters (1948)
* Blue Flames: Notes from the Diary of an Immoralist (1948)
* The Professor Goes Adventuring (1948)
* Moon Nets of the Master Spider (1948)
* Listen to Their Lust (1949)
* Curtain Call (1950)
* Flesh of the Flesh and Other Stories (1950)
* Maxims are Gadflies: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Eldridge (1950)
* Anatole France: Master of Irony and Pity (1950)
* Erasmus: the Humanist (1950)
* Michel De Montaigne: Skeptic and Atheist (1950)
* The Kingdom Without God: Being the Last Will and Testament of Paul Eldridge (1951)
* Crown of Empire: The Story of New York State (1957)
* Tales of the Fortunate Isles (1959)
* Second Life of John Stevens (1960)
* Seven Against the Night (1960)
* The Tree of Ignorance (1962)
* Maxims for a Modern Man (1965)
* The Homecoming: a Chronicle of a Refugee Family (1966)
* The Parables of Old Cathay (1969)
* The Story-Tellers (1970)
* François Rabelais: the Great Story Teller (1971)

## References

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1. ^ His New York Times obituary, published July 29, 1982, states that he "died Monday" as July 29th was a Thursday his death occurred on Monday, July 26, 1982.
2. ^ a b United States Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Ancestry.com, Eldridge 'Declaration of Intention (15 August 1900)' and official 'Petition for Naturalization (6 May 1912)'. [1]
3. ^ Jews With the Cross, Amazon book dust jacket image & listing, Amazon.com. [2]
4. ^ "Paul Eldridge," Class of 1911., General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1917, ed. W.J. Maxwell, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association, (page 470, column 2), books.google.com. [3]
5. ^ a b New York Times Obituary, July 29, 1982
6. ^ a b Manning, Robert Douglas. The Jew: Screenplay, Biographical Note on Eldridge. [4]
7. ^ "University Libraries | the University of Iowa". 18 November 2010.

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