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John Herrmann

Born: 11/09/1900  Lansing, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 04/09/1959
Parents: John T. Herrmann (Lansing Merchant)
Spouse: Josephine Herbst (1926-1940, divorce), Ruth Tate (1940-1959)
Children: John Theodore Ryder Herrmann
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Interred:
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Lansing, MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Salesman, a Novel Fiction Adult New York : Simon and Schuster 1939
Summer is Ended Fiction Adult New York: Covici, Friede 1932
What Happens
- "Originally published in France in 1926 and seized by U.S. Customs for violating the 1922 Tariff Act, which banned the importing of obscene materials from foreign countries, the novel has never been published in the United States. Until after his death. What Happens tells the coming-of-age story of Winfield Payne, a young man from a wealthy Michigan family. Winfield's struggles to make his way in the world are complicated by his awakening sexuality and fickle affections. He wants to be a hero but modern life isn't made for heroes"- 		Fiction, Michigan Adult Contact Editions (Paris) 1926-2015
Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers
- Included in this title edited by Robert McAlmon 		Fiction 1925
- Included in Scribner's, In This Quarter and other little magazines Fiction
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Awards:

Name Date
Michigan Notable Books
- For What Happens 		2016
Winner of Scribner's Magazine Short Novel Contest, "The Big Short Trip" 1932

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors - Brief Entry, volume 107 1983
Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 4
- 4. American Writers in Paris, 1920–1939, edited by Karen Lane Rood 		1980

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Attended Mexico City College Mexico City, Mexico 1949-1951
Studied art
- Early 1920s 		University of Munich Munich,Germany 1920
Public schools Lansing, MI
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Newspaperman and Salesman Michigan
Writer Paris, France

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
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Death (heart attack) - in Mexico

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