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Henry James Forman
1879–1966
An editor turned author, he wrote widely on culture and public life and became best known for a 1933 book that brought the Payne Fund Studies on movies and children to a broad audience. His career moved through newspapers, magazines, teaching, and literary reviewing, giving his work a lively, public-facing style.
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The Man Who Lived in a Shoe
by Henry James Forman
About the author
Born on February 17, 1879, Henry James Forman was an American editor and author whose career stretched across journalism, magazine publishing, and literary work. Reliable archival and reference sources agree that he worked as a reporter and staff correspondent for the New York Sun, served at Literary Digest and the North American Review, and later became managing editor of Collier's.
Forman also taught creative writing at Temple University and reviewed books for The New York Times. He wrote several books, but he is most often remembered for Our Movie Made Children (1933), a popular summary of the Payne Fund Studies that helped bring research on the effects of movies on young audiences into public debate.
He died on January 3, 1966. Even in brief biographical records, his career stands out for the way it linked journalism, criticism, and authorship, placing him in the middle of major conversations about literature, media, and American culture in the first half of the twentieth century.