Herbert Kubly
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April 26, 1915
Herbert Kubly | |
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 Kubly in 1956 | |
| Born | Herbert Oswald Nicholas Kubly April 26, 1915 |
| Died | August 7, 1996 (aged 81) |
| Occupation | Author, playwright |
| Notable works | American in Italy |
| Notable awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1956 |
| Spouse | Emily Lee Hill |
Herbert Oswald Nicholas Kubly (April 26, 1915 – August 7, 1996)[1] was an American author and playwright. For his first book, American in Italy, he won the 1956 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.[2]
Kubly was born and raised on a farm in the Swiss American community of New Glarus, Wisconsin. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism in 1937. His first professional work as a journalist was for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph.[3] He later wrote for the New York Herald Tribune.[4]
His first play, Men to the Sea, was produced on Broadway in 1944.[5] Between 1945 and 1947 he served as the music critic for Time magazine.[6][7]
In 1950 Kubly became an associate professor of speech at the University of Illinois,[8] but he left that position to accept a Fulbright grant to Italy, where he spent 18 months in 1950–1951.[9][10] He taught creative writing at San Francisco State College in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1984, he was an English professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside.[11][12]
He married Emily Lee Hill in 1989.[13] He died in New Glarus at age 81.[14]
Legacy
The University of Wisconsin–Parkside English Department established the Herbert Kubly Writing Award in 1996 in Kubly's memory.[11]
Books
- American in Italy - 1955
- Easter in Sicily - 1956
- Varieties of Love (stories) - 1958
- Italy (Life World Library) - 1961
- The Whistling Zone (novel) - 1963
- At Large (autobiographical) - 1964
- Switzerland (Life World Library) - 1964
- Gods and Heroes - 1969
- The Duchess of Glover (novel) - 1975
- Native's Return - 1981
- The Parkside Stories - 1985
Plays
- Men to the Sea - 1944
- The story concerns the wives of five sailors, who live at a boarding house in Brooklyn, New York while their husbands are away at sea.
- Inherit the Wind, with Waldemar Hansen - 1946
- A psychological drama set in Philadelphia in 1903. A production opened in London circa 1948.[15] (Not the play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.)
- Punch and Judy - 1948
- About the United Nations and the possibility of world organization.
- The Cocoon - 1954
- Produced in London.
- Beautiful Dreamer - 1956
- A comedy about a striptease artist trying to escape the police.
- Virus - 1973
- Produced at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside[16]
