Name Walter Pitkin | Movies Life Begins at Forty | |
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Spouse Katherine B. Johnson, Mary Gray Pitkin Children Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., David B. Pitkin, Richard G. Pitkin, John G. Pitkin, Robert B. Pitkin Books Life Begins at Forty, The Art Of Rapid Reading, The Art Of Useful Writing, The Art of Learning, The Art and the Business Similar People George Marshall, Robert Quillen, Lamar Trotti, Dudley Nichols | ||
Walter Boughton Pitkin (February 6, 1878 in Ypsilanti, Michigan – January 25, 1953 in Palo Alto, California) was an American lecturer in philosophy and psychology at Columbia University (1905–09), and professor in the Columbia University School of Journalism (1912–43). He wrote the self-help books Life Begins at Forty (New York, Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill, 1932) and The Psychology of Happiness. His A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity was translated into fifteen languages. Pitkin was a member of the New Realism school in philosophy, writing on its relation to biology.
Pitkin and his wife Mary Gray Pitkin had five sons: Richard G., John G., David B., Robert B., and Walter B Pitkin Jr. The elder Pitkin later married Katherine B. Johnson.