Peter De Vries - Selected works

Novelist and short-story writer, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Calvin College and Northwestern University, and in 1943 became a regular staff contributor to the New Yorker, where he developed the comic manner later displayed in such novels as The Tunnel of Love (1954) and The Mackerel Plaza (1958). His upbringing in the Dutch Reformed Calvinist faith provided the background of his later, serious novel about a child's terminal illness, The Blood of the Lamb (1961).

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.

De Vries was born in Chicago, Illinois of Dutch immigrant parents. He joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine at the insistence of James Thurber and worked there from 1944 to 1987, writing stories and touching up cartoon captions. This experience provided the inspiration for his 1961 work, The Blood of the Lamb. De Vries received an honorary degree in 1979 from Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA.

Selected works

1940 But Who Wakes the Bugler? 1943 The Handsome Heart 1944 Angels Can't Do Better 1954 Tunnel of Love 1956 Comfort Me with Apples 1958 The Mackerel Plaza 1959 The Tents of Wickedness 1961 The Blood of the Lamb 1964 Reuben, Reuben 1971 Into Your Tent I'll Creep 19?? The Glory Of The Hummingbird 1976 I Hear America Swinging 1978 Madder Music 1980 Consenting Adults;