Name Joseph Lippincott Role Author | Died October 22, 1976 | |
Education Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Books Wilderness Champion: The Story of a Great Hound Children Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr. | ||
The Wolf King - Joseph Wharton Lippincott
Joseph Wharton Lippincott (February 28, 1887 – October 22, 1976) was a noted publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman who was the grandson of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, and of industrialist Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
Contents
- The Wolf King Joseph Wharton Lippincott
- Biography
- Books
- Award for Outstanding Librarianship
- Family
- References
Biography
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to J. Bertram Lippincott, one of the three children of Joshua Bertram Lippincott, and Joanna Wharton Lippincott, one of the three daughters of Joseph Wharton. He attended The Episcopal Academy and graduated from the Wharton School in 1908. Following college he joined J.B. Lippincott Company, the family publishing firm he would serve for 50 years, including as President from 1927 until 1948, and then as Chairman of the Board until his retirement in 1958.
Books
Lippincott wrote 17 books about animals and nature, including Wilderness Champion; The Wolf King; The Wahoo Bobcat; Long Horn, Leader of the Deer; Chiseltooth, the Beaver; Persimmon Jim, the Possum; Bun, a Wild Rabbit; Little Red, the Fox; Gray Squirrel; Striped Coat, the Skunk; The Red Roan Pony; Animal Neighbors of the Countryside; and Black Wings, the Unbeatable Crow.
Award for Outstanding Librarianship
In 1938 he founded the Joseph W. Lippincott Award for Outstanding Librarianship, which continues to be awarded by the American Library Association each year.
Family
He married Elizabeth Schuyler Mills in 1913, and the couple had two sons, Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr. and R. Schuyler Lippincott, and a daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler (Lippincott) Wilkes. His wife died in 1943 and he remarried Virginia (Jones) Mathieson in 1945.