[Gutenberg 24595] • Cobb's Bill-of-Fare

Three full classics collected in one edition.

IRVIN SHREWSBURY COBB [1876-1944] was born in Paducah, Kentucky. He wrote more than 60 books and several-hundred short stories. At age seventeen, he was a reporter for the Paducah Daily News. At nineteen he was Managing News Editor, the nation's youngest. Later, he moved to the Louisville Evening Post. In 1904, the Evening Sun, in New York City, sent him to Portsmouth, NH to report on President Theodore Roosevelt's mediation at the Russian-Japanese peace conference, for which Roosevelt was later honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace. For of his reports from the peace negotians, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World hired him as the highest-paid staff reporter in the U.S. In World War I , he reported for the Saturday Evening Post. Several of Cobb's stories were made into films. Cobb also acted in 10 films. In 1935, he was host of the Academy Awards.