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===1910-1919===
===1910-1919===
*1911, April 28: '''Leon Harrison Gross''' is born i St. Louis to [[Eleanor Allina Epstein|Eleanor Allina]] and Benjamin Gross.
*1911, April 28: '''Leon Harrison Gross''' is born i St. Louis to [[Eleanor Allina Epstein|Eleanor Allina]] and Benjamin Gross.
*1913:Eleanor and Benjamin Gross get divorced.
*1913:Eleanor and Benjamin Gross get divorced <ref name="us-owi">''Study and Investigation of the Federal Communications Commission: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, Acting Under H. Res. 21, ...'', U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943, 390</ref>.
*1913, December: Eleanor Allina Gross remarries to Albert Falk Epstein, and from boyhood through his college education Leon was known as '''Leon H. Epstein'''.
*1913, December: Eleanor Allina Gross remarries to Albert Falk Epstein, and from boyhood through his college education Leon was known as '''Leon H. Epstein'''.
*1915, April 19: Leon's brother Leslie Alan Epstein is born <ref>1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri</ref>.
*1915, April 19: Leon's brother Leslie Alan Epstein is born <ref>1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri</ref>.
===1920-1929===
===1920-1929===
*1924: Leon enrols at Soldan High School.
*1924: Leon enrols at Soldan High School.

Revision as of 16:58, 1 May 2016

Lee Falk
Lee Falk-40s.jpg
Biographical information
Born: April 28, 1911
Died: March 13, 1999
Nationality: Mini usa.gif American
Occupation: Writer
Website:


There exist many smaller biographies of Lee Falk, but all contain some minor errors. The purpose of this page is making a timeline of which each point has one or more references, other than Lee Falk himself.

Timeline

1910-1919

  • 1911, April 28: Leon Harrison Gross is born i St. Louis to Eleanor Allina and Benjamin Gross.
  • 1913:Eleanor and Benjamin Gross get divorced [1].
  • 1913, December: Eleanor Allina Gross remarries to Albert Falk Epstein, and from boyhood through his college education Leon was known as Leon H. Epstein.
  • 1915, April 19: Leon's brother Leslie Alan Epstein is born [2].

1920-1929

  • 1924: Leon enrols at Soldan High School.
  • 1928: Leon enrols at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign.

1930-1939

  • 1932: Leon graduates from the Univerity of Illinois.
  • 1934, April 7: Leon copyrighted Mandrake the Magician under the name Leon Harrison Epstein and Lee Falk [3].
  • 1934: By decree of the circuit court, St. Louis, Mo., Leon's name was legally changed from Leon H. Gross to Leon Harrison Epstein Falk.
  • 1934, June 11: Mandrake the Magician daily comic strip debutes.
  • 1935, February 3: Mandrake the Magician Sunday page debutes.
  • 1935, October 1: Leon marries Louise Kanazireff, and honeymooned for a month in Mexico.
  • 1936, February 17: The Phantom daily comic strip debutes.
  • 1936, October 5: Lee and Louise Falk moved to New York.
  • 1939, May 28: The Phantom Sunday page debutes.

1940-1949

  • 1940, May 23: Lee and Louise's daughter Valerie is born.
  • 1940: Lee Falk starts the Cambridge Summer theatre with John Huntington.




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Note

References

  1. ↑ Study and Investigation of the Federal Communications Commission: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, Acting Under H. Res. 21, ..., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943, 390
  2. ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri
  3. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series -p66

External links

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