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Bruno Lessing
1870–1940
A sharp newspaper voice from early 20th-century America, remembered for warm humor, social observation, and a widely read pen name. Writing as Bruno Lessing, he brought everyday city life and Jewish American experience to a broad audience.
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Children of Men
by Bruno Lessing
About the author
Born Rudolph Edgar Block on December 6, 1870, he became best known under the pen name Bruno Lessing. He was a Jewish American journalist, columnist, and author whose writing reached a large readership in newspapers and magazines.
Lessing built his reputation on accessible, lively commentary rather than lofty literary posturing. His work is especially associated with New York life and with thoughtful, often humorous reflections on immigrant and Jewish American communities in the early 1900s.
He died on April 29, 1940. Today, Bruno Lessing is mainly remembered as the public name behind a prolific newspaper writer whose voice captured a distinct moment in American urban culture.