Barton Wood Currie was an American journalist, author, and book collector.
12 Facts About Barton Currie
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Writer of hundreds of articles and stories for publications such as New York Evening World, New York Evening Sun, Harper's Weekly and Good Housekeeping in the early part of the 20th century, Currie went on to become the editor of The Country Gentleman, Ladies Home Journal, and World's Work.
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Barton Currie acquired an important collection of material related to Joseph Conrad when that author was out of favor in the 1920s.
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Barton Currie began his writing career in about 1905 at Joseph Pulitzer's New York Evening World, where he worked under Charles Chapin, the "Rose Man of Sing Sing" who shot and killed his wife.
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Barton Currie was a staff reporter for the New York Evening Sun and The New York Times, and wrote for Harper's Weekly and Good Housekeeping.
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At both journals, he solicited Zane Grey to write articles and serialized novels, but their eight-year relationship soured when Barton Currie began to criticize the quality of Grey's work.
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In 1928 Barton Currie joined Doubleday Doran as editor of World's Work.
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Barton Currie wrote The Tractor and Its Influence Upon the Agricultural Implement Industry, reprinting his articles on tractors from his stint on Country Gentlemen.
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Barton Currie wrote from personal experience of the effect of bibliomania on the collector in his memoir Fishers of Books :.
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Barton Currie assembled an important collection of material relating to the novelist Joseph Conrad, including a number of manuscripts that he acquired from Dr Rosenbach, who had obtained them at the John Quinn sale of 1924.
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Sometime around 1931, Barton Currie acquired, via Gabriel Wells, the original manuscript for Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.
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Barton Currie died on 7 May 1962 in Philadelphia and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, Union County, New Jersey.