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Wilder Hobson was born on 18 February, 1906 in New York City, New York United States, is an American journalist. Discover Wilder Hobson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?
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Wilder Hobson |
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Writer, magazine editor |
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58 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius |
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18 February 1906 |
Birthday |
18 February |
Birthplace |
New York City, New York United States |
Date of death |
1 May, 1964 |
Died Place |
Princeton, New Jersey United States |
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United States
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Wilder Hobson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Wilder Hobson's Wife?
His wife is Peggy Hobson Verna Harrison Hobson (married 1945-1964)
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Peggy Hobson Verna Harrison Hobson (married 1945-1964) |
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Wilder Hobson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Wilder Hobson worth at the age of 58 years old? Wilder Hobson’s income source is mostly from being a successful journalist. He is from United States. We have estimated Wilder Hobson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Wilder Hobson (February 18, 1906 – May 1, 1964) was an American writer and editor for Time (1930s-1940s), Fortune (1940s), Harper's Bazaar (1950s), and Newsweek (1960s) magazines.
Born in 1906, Hobson attended Yale University.
There, he was a roommate of Dwight Macdonald, with whom he produced campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
Wilder's close ancestors were Maine "Downeasters" and he played summers on Squirrel Island in Southport with the Hennessy Five-Star Orchestra, which slide-trombonist Wilder joined in 1921 at age 15.
Wilder's second wife Verna later became a tuba player.
Hobson married his second wife, Verna Harrison (1923–2004), in the mid-1940s after meeting at Time.
At first they lived in Manhattan but moved to Princeton.
Each year, they summered on Squirrel Island, Maine while playing in the Hennessy Five Star Orchestra.
He was a 1928 member of Scroll and Key.
Hobson wrote for Time in the 1930s and 1940s.
After covering a coal strike during the 1930s, he helped lead unionization at Time and became the first head of Time's Newspaper Guild branch.
Hobson and Sargeant—both amateur, though well informed, jazz enthusiasts—believed that jazz came from New Orleans bordellos, whereas in the 1930s European scholars like Robert Goffin of Belgium and Hugues Panassié of France had already ascribed (correctly) that jazz was a "vernacular-based art."
Famed American documentary photographer Walker Evans captured Hobson and Agee on a Long Island beach during the summer of 1937, when Evans and Agee were visiting Hobson and his first wife Peggy.
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses those photos, which are also available online—see "Images," below.)
Hobson, however, rode out the storm and even managed to write two books at Time: a historical study called American Jazz Music (1939—see "Music," below) and a novel called All Summer Long (1945).
In 1939, Hobson became the second American to write a major book on jazz, American Jazz Music ( A year earlier, colleague Winthrop Sargeant, a staff writer at Life, had published Jazz—Hot and Hybrid).
Sargeant believed that the "swing" in jazz derived from complex African multi-rhythms adapted to relatively simple Western music.
He was also a competent musician (trombone), author of an history of American jazz, and long-time contributor to Saturday Review (1940s, 1950s, 1960s) magazine.
Also, he served on the planning committee of the Institute of Jazz Studies.
Hobson become a contributor to the (now defunct) Saturday Review during the late 1940s, the 1950s, and into the 1960s.
In October 1942, Hobson succeeded the late Calvin Fixx as assistant editor to Whittaker Chambers, then editor of Arts & Entertainment.
Hobson worked amidst the struggle between Soviet-sympathizing and anti-Communist staffers at Time.
Chambers and Willi Schlamm led the anti-Communist camp (and both later joined the founding editorial board of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review).
When Chambers received a promotion to senior editor in September 1943 and then joined Time's senior editorial group in December 1932, Hobson succeeded to the Arts & Entertainment section.
He hired friend Walker Evans to write reviews first on Film and then on Art (1943–1945).
Time founder Henry R. Luce came to support the anti-Communist camp before the end of World War II in 1945.
In 1946, Hobson moved to editorial board of Fortune, where he worked until severe writer's block caused him to resign.
In November 1950, Hobson became managing editor of Harper's Bazaar (then with a circulation of 340,605), replacing Frances MacFadden, who retired after 18 years in that position.
Later, Hobson joined Newsweek, where he worked for a decade.
Mrs. Hobson worked 1954-1966 as secretary to Robert Oppenheimer, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Hobson was a heavy alcoholic and died at the age of 58 in 1964 of gastrointestinal hemorrhage in Princeton, New Jersey.
After her husband's death in 1964, she moved to London and worked first for the American Association of University Women and then for the London branch of Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall, architects.
In 1976, she returned to America and settled in New Gloucester, Maine, working for the independent weekly New Gloucester News and also helping to re-establish The Squirrel Island Squid.
In 1998, she became a photographic stringer for The Lewiston Sun.
In 2001, she moved to New Rochelle, New York, to live with her son Archie's family.
Family members still return, where, as of 2001, the Hennessy band was "still alive and well."
Daughter Eliza Hobson became a jazz disc jockey and broadcast journalist as well as playing piano and guitar.
Verna Harrison Hobson died on April 13, 2004.