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Jeffrey Potter (Jeffrey Brackett Potter) was born on 12 April, 1918 in Manhattan, New York, is an American biographer. Discover Jeffrey Potter'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 94 years old?

Popular As Jeffrey Brackett Potter
Occupation Biographer
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 12 April, 1918
Birthday 12 April
Birthplace Manhattan, New York
Date of death 15 December, 2012
Died Place Southampton, New York
Nationality United States

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His wife is Priscilla Bowden

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Parents Mary Barton Atterbury Joseph Wiltsie Fuller Potter
Wife Priscilla Bowden
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Children Job Potter Manon Potter Gayle Basso Horatio Potter

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1918

Jeffrey Potter (April 12, 1918 – December 15, 2012) was an American biographer best known for his 1985 biography of Jackson Pollock, whom he had befriended in 1949.

He also published two children’s books and two non-fiction works: one about environmental disaster, and an authorised biography of Dorothy Schiff.

Potter was born to Mary Barton Atterbury and Joseph Wiltsie Fuller Potter, on April 12, 1918, in Manhattan.

His father was a Wall Street stockbroker.

The young Jeffrey dropped out of Groton School to become a newspaper reporter, factory machinist and seaman.

During World War II he joined the American Field Service, where he was attached to the British Indian Army, as an ambulance driver and medic in the Burma Campaign.

1949

While working as a building contractor in the Hamptons in 1949, he befriended painter Jackson Pollock.

Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, lived in Springs, near Potter's home in Amagansett, New York.

1956

They remained friends until Pollock's death in 1956.

1976

Potter's first biography, Men, Money & Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff was published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan in 1976.

Much of the book is devoted to Schiff's relationships with her husbands and male friends, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The authorised work suggested the relationship with Roosevelt was sexual.

The sensational story received extensive coverage in Time Magazine of June 7, 1976.

1985

In 1985, Potter published a book on Pollock, consisting of selections from hundreds of taped interviews with Pollock's family, friends, colleagues and neighbors.

A production company representing Barbra Streisand and Robert De Niro bought the film rights; Pollock, a competing production, featuring Ed Harris as Pollock, eventually won the day.

1989

Schiff denied it and came to refer to Potter's work as "that awful book", although, when she left her papers to the New York Public Library, after her death in 1989, pages initialed by her referred to the joint purchase with FDR of a house next to Hyde Park, New York.

Potter felt betrayed by the denial.

2000

Pollock (2000) was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

Potter claimed the book had plagiarised his, and Naifeh and Smith sued him for libel.

Ed Harris would later say that his interest in portraying Pollock was inspired by Potter's book, which he had received as birthday gift from his father.