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Edmund G. Love

Born

in Flushing, Michigan, The United States

February 12, 1912

Died

August 30, 1990

Genre

Humor and Comedy, Memoir, History

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Mr. Love wrote 20 books, and his work appeared in many anthologies and textbooks on writing.

Subways Are for Sleeping (1957) was based on Mr. Love's experiences in sleeping on New York City subway trains when he could not afford lodging. Reading like a handbook for the homeless, it was "a humorous, pathetic and extremely interesting excursion into ways of life as strange to most gainfully employed citizens as those of Papua head-hunters," Orville Prescott wrote in his review in The New York Times.

Mr. Love's book Hanging On was the story of how his family survived the Depression in Flint. It was later used in classes on American history at the University of Michigan, where he had earned a bachelor's and a master's degree. Another of his boo Mr. Love wrote 20 books, and his work appeared in many anthologies and textbooks on writing.

Subways Are for Sleeping (1957) was based on Mr. Love's experiences in sleeping on New York City subway trains when he could not afford lodging. Reading like a handbook for the homeless, it was "a humorous, pathetic and extremely interesting excursion into ways of life as strange to most gainfully employed citizens as those of Papua head-hunters," Orville Prescott wrote in his review in The New York Times.

Mr. Love's book Hanging On was the story of how his family survived the Depression in Flint. It was later used in classes on American history at the University of Michigan, where he had earned a bachelor's and a master's degree. Another of his books, The Situation in Flushing (1965), concerned a boy's love of trains in the early 1900s.

After Army service in World War II, Mr. Love headed the team that wrote military histories of the war in the Pacific. He then turned to freelance writing. His book War Is a Private Affair (1959) was called "the finest book of its kind since Tales of the South Pacific" by Charles Poore in a review for The Times.

As a reaction to leaner days, Mr. Love dined in more restaurants than most food critics do. Beginning in 1952, he systematically ate his way through a large number of the restaurants listed in the Manhattan Yellow Pages, from ABC Carol Downtown Health Foods to Zorba.

"Sometimes you end up in some pretty awful places," he recalled in an interview in 1973. "When I started I asked a cop in Penn Station for a recommendation. He told me to look in the Yellow Pages. I did and picked A La Fourchette, the first one on the list. I had such a good dinner, I tried the same thing the next week." Twelve years and $18,000 later, he said he had sampled 1,750 of the 5,595 restaurants listed. "I don't monkey with one-arm joints or luncheonettes," he explained.

Mr. Love passed away from a heart attack in his home in Flint, Michigan. He was 78 at the time of his death. ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 598 ratings · 68 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Situation in Flushing 4.25 avg rating — 68 ratings — 8 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
	Subways Are for Sleeping 4.10 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1957 — 7 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
	A Small Bequest 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1973 — 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
	Hanging On, Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1972 — 7 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
	War Is a Private Affair 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1959 — 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
	The 27th Infantry Division in World War II 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 10 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
	Arsenic and Red Tape by Edmund G. Love, Unknown . 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1960 — 9 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
	A Shipment of Tarts 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1967	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
	An End to Bugling 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 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
	Set-up 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1980	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