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Endpoint: A. C. Spectorsky



created on: 15/07/2024
by: bob (9836)
 
 

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A. C. Spectorsky (born August 13, 1910 in Paris, France - died January 17, 1972 in Christiansted, Virgin Islands, (aged 61)) was an author, editor and publisher.

Mr. Spectorsky was born in Paris of American parents, Isaac Spectorsky and the former Frances Herbert. He was given the first two names of Auguste Comte, but he rarely used the names, preferring the initials. To friends he was known as “Spec.”

When his parents moved to New York City while he was still a youngster, he attended the Ethical Culture School and the Columbia Grammar School. Graduation from the latter in 1929 was followed by a year of “various and menial” duties, as he later termed them, at Columbia Pictures in Holly wood. On his return he entered New York University, majoring in physics and earning a B.S. in 1934.

After his graduation, Mr. Spectorsky continued his studies in physics at Columbia and became a laboratory assistant at MP Concert Installations in Fairfield, Conn.
It was while he held this job that he sold his first article to The New Yorker where he would stayed three years as an an editorial associate.

Mr. Spectorsky was perhaps best known for his book “The Exurbanites,” published in 1955, a volume that probed with acerbic wit the mores of the residents of Old Greenwich, Westport and Darien and their counterparts on Long Island and in New Jersey and Bucks County.
Other books he wrote were were “Invitation to Skiing,” “Man Into Beast,” “The Book of the Sea,” “The Book of the Mountains,” “The Book of the Sky,” “The Book of the Earth,” “The College Years” and “New Invitation to Skiing.”

Mr. Spectorsky wrote articles and fiction for national magazines and book reviews for The New York Times, and he was at times the editor of Living for Young Homemakers, Charm, Park East, Cosmopolitan, This Week, Harper's Bazaar, Collier's, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping and The New Yorker.
From 1941 to 1946, he was literary editor of The Chicago Sun.
For two years, 1946 to 1948, Mr. Spectorsky was an associate Eastern story editor for Twentieth Century-Fox.
From 1951 to 1954 he was editor in chief of Park East magazine.

After leaving Park East Mr. Spectorsky continued as a senior editor with N.B.C. until May, 1956, when he moved to Chicago to become associate publisher of Playboy.

Mr. Spectorsky married three times; the first two marriages, to Lucille Hille and Elizabeth Bullock, were terminated by divorce. He was survived by his widow, the former Theo Frederick (born Joan Theodora Feigenspan 1926 - died 1994), a book editor whom he married in 1955.

He died in a St. Croix hospital at Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He was 61 years old. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Burial after cremation was at sea.
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Married to [m. 1955 - 1972 (his death)] : Theo Frederick
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