Corey Ford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American writer
Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1902
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 27-Jul-1969
Profession: screenwriter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Corey Ford
- Corey Ford (April 29, 1902 – July 27, 1969) was an American humorist, author, outdoorsman, and screenwriter.
- He was friendly with several members of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City and occasionally ate lunch there. Ford was a member of the Class of 1923 at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he edited the humor magazine Jester of Columbia and wrote the Varsity Show Half Moon Inn.
- He also joined, and was expelled from, the Philolexian Society.
- Failing to graduate, he embarked on a career as a freelance writer and humorist.
- In the 1930s he was noted for satirical sketches of books and authors penned under the name "John Riddell".
- Theodore Dreiser was shown adopting the guise of a common workman building his newest and biggest novel from bricks and mortar.
- He reviewed Dead Lovers are Good Lovers as "Dead Novelists are Good Novelists." Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair magazine featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs.
- John D.
- Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs.
- Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs.
- Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs.
- Martha Graham, Gertrude Stein vs.
- Gracie Allen, Adolf Hitler vs.
- Huey Long. Ford published 30 books and more than 500 magazine articles, many of them marked with a gregarious sense of humor, a love of dogs and "underdogs." He told many stories of the literary scene in the twenties, of headhunters in Dutch Borneo, of U.S.
- airmen in combat during World War II.
- He loved conversation and comradeship and was a great listener as well.
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