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George T. Delacorte Jr.

American publisher

George T. Delacorte Jr. (20 June 1894 – 4 May 1991) was an American magazine publisher, born in New York City.

He founded the Dell Publishing in 1921. His goal was to entertain readers who were not satisfied with the genteel publications available at the time. The company was one of the largest publishers of books, magazines, and comics during its heyday. His most successful innovation was the puzzle magazine.

Biography

Delacorte, born George Tonkonogy,[1] was the son of George Tonkonogy, Sr. and Sadie König, both Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.[2] He grew up in Brooklyn with his siblings; Abraham, Mamie, Henrietta, Archibald, Elizabeth, Eugene, and Gertrude.[3][4][5]

An alumnus of Columbia University (1913), Delacorte donated money to the university which established the Delacorte Professorship in the Humanities and helped found the George T. Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism and the creation of the Delacorte Professorship in Magazine Journalism

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Happy 125th George Delacorte!

PulpFest 2018will honor the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War. The convention will focus on the so-called “war pulps” of the early twentieth century and the depiction of war in popular culture. The first of these pulps — WAR STORIES — was published by today’s birthday boy, George Thomas Delacorte. Born on June 20, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, Delacorte was the founder of the Dell Publishing Company.

Following his dismissal from William Clayton’s SNAPPY STORIES MAGAZINE in 1920, Delacorte began his publishing company. His first periodical was I, CONFESS, a confession pulp modeled after Bernarr Macfadden’s TRUE STORY MAGAZINE. Debuting in early 1922, it has been called “the most prominent of the confession pulps.” It lasted for over 200 issues.

Seeking to duplicate the success of I CONFESS, Dell continued to issue love-themed confessional titles over the next three years: CUPID’S DIARY in 1923, MARRIAGE STORIES in 1924, and SWEETHEART STORIES in 1925.

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George Thomas Delacorte, Jr., was born George Ferdinand Tonkonogy, Jr., on June 20, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, also named George F. Tonkonogy, was born in 1867 in Hungary of Jewish ancestry, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1888. His mother, Sadie Adolphina Koenig, was born in 1873 in Russia of Jewish ancestry, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1886. His parents married in 1890 in New York City and lived at 137 Osborn Street in Brooklyn. They had four children, Abraham (b. 1891), George (b.1893), Mary (b. 1895), and Henrietta (b.1898). The father was a lawyer with a private Law Office at 1765 Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn.

The Tonkonogy family was prosperous enough to have a servant and to travel to Hungary to visit the paternal family in 1904.

That same year his parents divorced.

Again in that same year his mother, Sadie Adolphina Koenig, married her second husband, Adolph Benevy, who was born in 1877 in Russia of Jewish ancestry, and came to the U.S. in 1890, where he became a Lawyer. He also had a practice in Brooklyn, so it seems likely that both lawyers had a business

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