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Irvin S. Cobb

Born

in Paducah, KY, The United States

June 23, 1876

Died

March 11, 1944

Genre

Humor

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(Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb)

American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York during 1904, living there for the remainder of his life.

He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.

Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted for two feature films during the 1930s directed by John Ford. ...more

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	Fishhead 3.64 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1913 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cobb's Anatomy 3.75 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1912 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oh! Well! You Know How Women Are! And Isn't That Just Like A Man! by Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart 3.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1920 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1915 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"Speaking of Operations--" by Irvin S. Cobb, Tony Sarg (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1915 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Europe Revised 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1914 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Judge Priest 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1912 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Third Off 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1921 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and Other Plights 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1913 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb by Irvin S. Cobb, Jim Pitts (Illustrator), Linden Riley (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat.”
― Irvin S. Cobb

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“If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
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“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
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