Meade Minnigerode (1887–1967) was an American writer, born in
London
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. He graduated from
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in 1910 and for several years was associated with publishers in
New York
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. He represented the
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in France in 1917–1918 and in the year following was first lieutenant with the
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. His books include:
*''Laughing House'' (1920)
*''The Big Year'' (1921)
*''O, Susanna'' (1922)
*''The Fabulous Forties'' (1924), a graphic and amusing picture of New York in the time of
Dickens
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.
* ''Cockades ''(1927)
*''Black Forest'' (1937), an historical novel of the Old Northwest.
*''The Terror of Peru'' (1940)
*''Essex Post'' (1944), a record of volunteer service performed during World War II with the
Aircraft warning service -175 copies only.
Along with George S. Pomeroy, Minnigerode wrote the lyrics of The Whiffenpoof Song. Grandson of Mary Carter of North Carolina and Rev.
Charles (Karl) Minnigerode, born in Germany, noted classics scholar and Rector of St. Paul's Cathedral of Richmond, VA during the Civil War. St. Paul's was known as the Cathedral of the Confederacy. Rev. Minnigerode was conducting the Sunday service during which Jefferson Davis received notice of Lee's evacuation of the Petersburg defenses.
See also
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1909 in music
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Carlos Martínez de Irujo y Tacón
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Yale University alumni
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
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1887 births
1967 deaths
20th-century American male writers
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