Wainwright Evans

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Journalist and author who published various articles on parapsychological subjects. He was born October 13, 1883, in Alpena, Michigan. He studied at Princeton University (B.A., 1907), afterward becoming a reporter on the New York Herald (1908-10) and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (1910). He then became an instructor in English at the University of Arkansas (1911-15), an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas (1915-17), and a staff writer for Nation's Business (1917-19). In 1921 he became a freelance writer, the occupation he held for the rest of his life. Besides several books, including two written with Judge Ben B. Lindsey, The Revolt of Modern Youth (1925) and The Companionate Marriage (1928), he turned out numerous articles on occult subjects over the years for the American Weekly.

Sources:

Evans, John W. "Conan Doyle Still Lives." American Weekly, November 2, 1952.

——. "Haunted by the Ghost of Bernard Shaw." American Weekly, June 7, 1953.

——. "Patrice Munsel's Neon Ghost." American Weekly, November 8, 1953.

——. "The Phantom Model." American Weekly, April 4, 1954.

——. "When the Clocks Stood Still." American Weekly, June 13, 1954.

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Newspaper Article from??? From family records.

Wainwright Evans Writes Popular Book

Wainwright Evans, son of Rev. John Evans rector of St. Paul's church, Palmyra, for a number of years and grandson of Dr. J.A. Wainwright who for twenty-six years also served that parish, has collaborated with Judge Ben Lindsey known to our community th.. the Chautam?qua, in writing a book called "The Revolt of Modern Youth."

....published only a few months ago, it is in it's third edition and is called "An epoch making book."

Charles W. Wood, known on C...llier's Weekly staff writes, "You have the biggest st ory in America."

Frannie Hurst says, "Compressed between the covers of that little volume are the kind of understanding and idealism that must ultimately make the world a better place in which to live."

David Starr Jordan considers it "One of the most weighty books of our time." Upton Sinclair says, "You have written a beautiful wise and brave book." George Pierrot, editor of the American Boy writes, "I wish every parent and teacher could be required to read it."

This book in a chronicle of terrible truths, stark, appalling, unescapable. They are the stories of Judge Lindsey's experiences in the Juvenile Court of Denver for more that a quarter of a century, written in Mr. Evans' vigorous style.

Rupert Hughes in a long article about the book in the Chicago Herald says, "Judge Lindsey is almost along in facing the facts with full information, with unfaltering eagerness for truth, and with the combination of perfect wisdome and perfect mercy that can only be found in the heart and in the writings of a scientist."

In a personal letter to Judge Lindsey, J.N. Williams of Hobart College, New York, writes "In my class on the family, I have laid everything else aside and am taking up your book with the class, chapter by chapter. It does not seem possible that this country would ever feel the same toward those questions, after reading your book as it felt before. The style is brilliant and Mr. Evans is certainly to be congratulated on his part."