Clarence A. Barnes Jr. (usually referred to as Clare Barnes Jr. during his days as a popular author) (c. 1907 – February 2, 1992) was an American author and advertising agency art director. He was best known for his series of books, starting in 1949 with ''White Collar Zoo'', which featured animal photos with humorous captions. ''White Collar Zoo'' was the number 1 non-fiction bestseller of 1949 on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list, and its followup ''Home Sweet Zoo'' was number 4.Korda, Michael
Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999
p.97 (2001)(1 May 1950)
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Speaking of Pictures...
''Life''Poore, Charles (7 July 1949)
Animals are very much like people
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and received an undergraduate degree from

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in 1929. He worked for a number of advertising agencies. He died in his

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home on February 2, 1992, of emphysema at age 85. He also had a home in

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.(11 February 1992)
Clarence Barnes, 85, Author and Illustrator
''The New York Times''(12 May 1950)

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'' Barnes' father, Clarence A. Barnes, was a politician and the attorney general of Massachusetts in the late 1940s.(19 January 2006)
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Bibliography

*''White Collar Zoo'' (July 1949)(12 December 1949)
The Beast in Us
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''(21 August 1949)
In and Out of Books
''The New York Times'' (stating though 100,000 copies had already sold in its first month of release) *''Home Sweet Zoo'' (December 1949)1950 Britannica book of the year
p. 116 (1950)(4 December 1949)
A Beastly Approach
''The New York Times'' *''Campus Zoo'' (1950)Hackett, Alice Payne
70 years of best sellers, 1895-1965
(1967) *''Political Zoo'' (1952) *''Sleeping Under Blankets'' (1955) *''White Collar Zoo Revisited'' (1961) *''The Secret of Cooking for Dogs'' (with Martin A. Gardner) (1964) *''The Secret of Cooking for Cats'' (with Martin A. Gardner) (1965) *''John F. Kennedy: Scrimshaw Collector'' (1969)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barnes, Clare Jr. 1900s births 1992 deaths American advertising executives People from Manhattan People from Edgartown, Massachusetts Writers from Massachusetts Yale University alumni