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Rudolph Edgar Block
Rudolph Edgar Block (1870–1940) was a Jewish American journalist, columnist, and author. Much of his writing was done under the pen name of Bruno Lessing.〔Rudolph Edgar Block ''fr.wikipedia.org''. Retrieved: January 27, 2014.〕
==Biography==
Rudolph Block began his career as a journalist in 1888. He worked first as a news reporter on ''The New York Sun'' and later joined the ''The New York World''. In 1896 he became the editor of the comic supplements to the Hearst newspapers,〔 a position he held for the next twenty-eight years.〔 During his tenure he supplied text for The Yellow Kid〔(Around the World With The Yellow Kid ) ''virginia.edu''. Retrieved: January 28, 2014.〕 and helped to create such popular series as Happy Hooligan and The Katzenjammer Kids.〔 As Bruno Lessing his short stories chronicled life in the Jewish ghetto of New York City.〔(''The International Story'' by Ruth Spack, (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 62. )〕 Between 1905 and 1909 many of these tales were published by ''Cosmopolitan'', which at that time was a literary magazine.〔(''The Dream Of A New Social Order'' by Matthew Schneirov, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994) p. 242. )〕 During the years 1915 – 1916 he also wrote a number of screenplays depicting the Jewish American experience.〔(Bruno Lessing ) ''imdb.com''. Retrieved: January 27, 2014.〕
Ambrose Bierce, another frequent contributor to ''Cosmopolitan'',〔(Ambrose Bierce ) ''google.com''. Retrieved: January 27, 2014.〕 mentioned Block in his satirical work The Devil's Dictionary, recounting the author's alleged encounter with a prominent critic.〔(Definition of the word "story" ) ''google.com''. Retrieved: July 27, 2014.〕 A short poem by Bierce, titled "Rudolph Block", had likewise no apparent connection to the man himself.〔(''Shapes Of Clay'', vol. 4 of ''The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce'', (New York & Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1910) p. 373. )〕
An avid traveler, Block wrote about his experiences in the daily newspaper column "Vagabondia", which was published from 1928 through 1939.〔(''The New York American'' April 5, 1935 )〕〔(''The Milwaukee Sentinel'' December 21, 1939 )〕 Along the way he amassed a collection of 1,400 walking sticks, although he himself walked unaided.〔(''Catalogue Of A Private Collection Of Walking Sticks'' ) ''openlibrary.org''. Retrieved: January 27, 2014.〕 After his death, the collection of canes, each made from a unique type of wood, was donated to Yale University.〔(Rudolph Block's Collection: Canes Of Various Woods ) ''lumberjocks.com''. Retrieved: January 27, 2014.〕
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