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Barry, Joseph, 1917-1994


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  • Fuller Name

    • Joseph Amber
  • Variants

    • Barry, Joseph Amber, 1917-
  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1917-06-13
    • Death Date

        1994-03-15
    • Birth Place

        Scranton (Pa.)
    • Associated Language

        English
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Barry, Joseph Amber, 1917-
  • Sources

    • found: His Libraries in need, 1949:title page (Joseph A. Barry)
    • found: France, 1965:title page (Joseph Barry)
    • found: Passion and politics : a biography of Versailles, 1972:title page (Joseph Barry)
    • found: Infamous woman : the life of George Sand, 1976:title page (Joseph Barry)
    • found: Dr. Tony Shaw blogspot, viewed 13 June 2018:item of 7 November 2013 (photo of gravestone which reads "Joseph Amber Barry; 13.6.1917, Scranton, USA; 15.3.1994, Paris; writer/écrivain"; Joseph Amber Barry came to France in 1944 with the American army, became familiar with the Gertrude Stein set and never left; it seems his most famous book is a biography of George Sand)
    • found: New York Times website, viewed 14 June 2018:obituary from 1994 (Joseph A. Barry, an American writer, journalist and critic of French culture and history, died Tuesday in Paris, aged 76. Mr. Barry's books included: "Left Bank, Right Bank" (1951), "The People of Paris" (1966), "Passions and Politics, a Biography of Versailles" (1972), "Infamous Woman: The Life of George Sand" (1976), and "French Lovers: From Heloise and Abelard to Beauvoir and Sartre" (1987). Mr. Barry worked in the Paris office of Newsweek for several years, and for several more contributed criticism and reviews to the Sunday edition of The New York Times. He was the executive editor of House Beautiful magazine in New York in the 1950's, and returned to Paris in 1958 to become European correspondent for the New York Post, until 1965. In recent years he also was a consultant to the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization)
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    • 1979-06-21: new
    • 2022-06-08: revised
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