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Author, journalist, after-dinner speaker, lecturer, radio personality, screenwriter, and Hollywood actor, Irvin S. Cobb was one of the most versatile and successful humorists of his day. Widely praise...
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Though Irvin S. Cobb was an accomplished reporter of straight news, he is mainly remembered in present-day journalistic circles for his contributions as a humor columnist. Much of his surviving humor ...
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Irvin S. Cobb was a literary man of all trades: short-story writer, novelist, journalist, war correspondent, playwright, essayist, raconteur, and actor. Born to Joshua Clark Cobb and Manie Saunders Co...
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In the following essay, Pendennis interviews Cobb, discussing with him the inspiration for his characters.
Looking like Cyrano de Bergerac, in white flannels; hovering like a lazy bumble-bee over the...
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In the following essay, Mencken finds Cobb's work "superficial and inconsequential. "
Nothing could be stranger than the current celebrity of Irvin S. Cobb, an author of whom almo...
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In the following essay, Overton provides an overview of Cobb's work.
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A three-dimensional writer, Irvin S. Cobb has long been among the American literary heavy-weights. Now that he has acquire...
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In the following essay, Masson praises Cobb's work and solicits from Cobb an overview of his career.
Irvin Cobb has written things about himself, I was about to add, "in a quite imperson...
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In the following essay, Neuman outlines Cobb's methods of writing.
Those who look upon the writing profession as an easy thing meet with little encouragement from Irvin S. Cobb. The famous scri...
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In the following essay, van Gelder reviews Exit Laughing, finding it entertaining, but ultimately unsatisfying.
Irvin S. Cobb learned his trade in a rugged school where facility in writing was the rew...
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In the following essay, White praises Exit Laughing as a peculiarly American autobiography.
This book [Exit Laughing] is only incidentally the "life story" of Irvin S. Cobb. It is an adv...
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In the following essay, Hoover discusses Cobb's shaping values, which she views as being rooted in the American South of the nineteenth century.
Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) had access to more of ...
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In the following essay, Chatterton examines Cobb's horror stories.
In a letter to editor Thomas Costain (12 May 1941), Irvin Cobb suggested that the firm of Doubleday, Doran, consider publishin...
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Irvin S. Cobb
Critical Essay by Pendennis
