Nevada Writers Hall of Fame: Lucius Beebe 10/15/200701:03 PM · *elar 3214 University of Nevada, Reno Lucius Beebe Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1992 Membership Board of Directors Tours and Events Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Library Gifts and Donations Lucius Morris Beebe (1902-1966), an Edwardian at heart, was born on December 9, 1902, to a prosperous familv in Wakefield. Massachusetts. He won the Richard Memorial Prize for poetry in 1923 from Yale but was later expelled. He graduated from Harvard in 1926 and studied poetry as a graduate student for a year. He then began work in literary journalism for the Boston Transcript and the Herald Tribune. In 1933, he began writing a syndicated column for The New York Herald called "This New York," documenting the affluent Cafe Society. He was featured on a 1939 cover of Life magazine and was known in social circles as "Mr. New York." A flamboyant gourmet, he was a member of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, an international organization celebrating French wines, and was invited to the first meeting of Les Amis de Gastronome in Las Vegas in 1960. In 1950, Beebe and his lifetime friend and partner, Charles M. Clegg, moved to Virginia City, where they purchased and restored the PiDer familv home and later purchased the dormant Territorial Enterorise. Beebe re-launched the newspaper in 1952, and by 1954, the Enterprise had the highest circulation in the West for a weekly newspaper. He and Clegg co-wrote the "That Was the West" series, providing historical essays for the newspaper. Beebe was a community activist. He was appointed by the governor of Nevada to be a member of the Nevada State Centennial Committee (1958) and was Chairman of the Silver Centennial Monument Committee (1958), groups that planned events honoring Nevada's and Virginia City's history. Through their efforts, the federal government commissioned a commemorative stamp in recognition of the discovery of the Comstock Lode. A railroad historian, Beebe gained recognition as a train photographer. He and Clegg owned two of the last private railroad cars, the Gold Coast and the Virainia Citv, and co-produced more than thirty books http://www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/beebe.html Page 1 of 15 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,A through B Name file,Beebe,BEEBE_001.pdf,BEEBE_001.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: BEEBE_001.PDF