Spotlight on Lee Falk - Timeline
| Lee Falk | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Born: | April 28, 1911 |
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| Died: | March 13, 1999 |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Occupation: | Writer |
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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.
- 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 [1].
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 [2].
- 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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