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Lucius Beebe
LUCIUS MORRIS BEEBE (December 9, 1902 - February 4, 1966) was an American author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist.
Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts...view moreLUCIUS MORRIS BEEBE (December 9, 1902 - February 4, 1966) was an American author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist.
Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts to a prominent Boston family, he attended both Harvard University and Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1926.
He published several books of poetry before becoming a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Telegram, and the Boston Evening Transcript. He was also a contributing writer to many magazines such as Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Holiday, American Heritage, and Playboy.
In 1950, Beebe and his long-time friend and partner, photographer Charles Clegg, moved from New York City to Virginia City, Nevada, where he and Clegg co-wrote the “That Was the West” series of historical essays for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper, a fabled 19th century newspaper that had once been the employer of Mark Twain, which the pair relaunched in 1952.
Beebe wrote over 35 books, dealing primarily with railroading and café society. Many of his railroad books were written with his long-time companion Charles Clegg.
Beebe died in 1966 at the age of 63 of a sudden heart attack at his winter home in Hillsborough, California.
He was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1992.view less