Simeon Strunsky

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Simeon Strunsky, A.B. (July 23, 1879–February 5, 1948) was an American essayist, born at Vitebsk, Russia. He graduated from Columbia University in 1900. He was a department editor of the New International Encyclopedia from 1900 to 1906, editorial writer on the New York Evening Post from 1906 to 1913, and subsequently was literary editor of that paper until 1920. His columns also appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Bookman, Collier's, and Harper's Weekly. He wrote:

Through the Outlooking Glass with Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
The Patient Observer (1911)
Belshazzar Court, or Village Life in New York City (1914)
Post-Impressions (1914)

He joined the New York Times in 1924 and was on staff until his death in Princeton, New Jersey, where he was hospitalized for three months. He was married to Socialist and former Kerensky associate Catherine Breshkovskaya (d. 1945); they had a son and a daughter. He had a son by his first wife, Rebecca Slobodkin (d. 1906).

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