Henry Cuyler Bunner (August 3, 1855 – May 11, 1896) was an American novelist, journalist and poet.[1] He is known mainly for Tower of Babel.
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Born | (1855-08-03)August 3, 1855 Oswego, New York, United states of America |
Died | May 11, 1896(1896-05-11) (aged 40) Nutley, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Notable works | Zenobia's Infidelity The Tower of Babel |
Spouse | Alice Learned |
Bunner's works have been praised by librarians for its "technical dexterity, playfulness and smoothness of finish".
Henry Cuyler Bunner was born at August 3,1855 in Oswego, New York to Rudolph Bunner Jr. (1813–1875) and Ruth Keating Tuckerman (1821–1896) and was educated in New York City. His paternal grandparents were Rudolph Bunner (1779–1837) and Elizabeth Church (1783–1867), the daughter of John Barker Church (1748–1818) and Angelica Schuyler (1756–1814). Among his works "Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere,"[2] published in 1884 and including one of his best known poems, "The Way to Arcady"; "Rowen" (1892), and "Poems" (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews and displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship.[3] 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.
Bunner married Alice Learned (1863–1952), daughter of Joshua Coit Learned (1819–1892), and granddaughter of Joshua Coit (1758–1798), U.S. Representative from Connecticut. Together, they had:
Bunner died on May 11, 1896, in Nutley, New Jersey.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bunner, Henry Cuyler". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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