Person Detail: Herbert Asbury

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General Information:
Full Name: Herbert Asbury
Biography: (1889-1963) Writer, Reporter, Novelist. Herbert Asbury divided his time between two homes; one in New York City and the other in Canada Lake, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1889		(Unknown) County Herbert Asbury was born in Farmington, Missouri on September 1, 1889.
1963		New York County Herbert Asbury died in New York City, New York on February 24, 1963 due to chronic lung problems he had suffered since being gassed in the first World War.
1940		(Unknown) County Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld Novel.
1933		(Unknown) County The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (Pub: ISBN: 1-56025-408-4) Novel.
1928		(Unknown) County The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld Novel. Was adapted for a film version in 2002, directed by Martin Scorsese.
1950		(Unknown) County The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition Novel.
1926		(Unknown) County Up From Methodism Novel.
1927		(Unknown) County A Methodist Saint : The Life of Bishop Asbury Novel.
1927		(Unknown) County The Devil of Pei-ling Novel.
1928		(Unknown) County The Tick of the Clock Novel.
1928		(Unknown) County Not at Night: A Collection of Weird Tales Novel.
1941		(Unknown) County The Golden Flood: An Informal History of America's First Oil Field (Pub: Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN: ) Novel.
1926		(Unknown) County Asbury sells an article titled Hatrack to H.L. Mencken's magazine American Mercury. It delt with the story of a Farmington prostitute and was banned from sale in Boston. Mencken challenged this by selling a copy on the commons in the city and was arrested -- causing a great increase in sales for the magazine and fame for Asbury.
1928		(Unknown) County Worked as a reporter for several newspapers (such as the Atlanta Georgian, the New York Sun, the New York Herald, and the New York Tribune) until 1928.
?		Fulton County Asbury owned a home in Canada Lake, New York.