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Q. K. Philander Doesticks
1831–1875
A sharp-tongued American humorist and journalist, this 19th-century writer became famous for comic sketches published under the lively pen name Q. K. Philander Doesticks. His work captures the playful, satirical side of newspaper writing in the years before and after the Civil War.
5 Audiobooks
Doesticks: What He Says
by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859
by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
The Witches of New York
by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Nothing to Say A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has 'Nothing to Do' with 'Nothing to Wear'
by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
The History and Records of the Elephant Club
by Edward F. (Edward Fitch) Underhill, Q. K. Philander Doesticks
About the author
Born Mortimer Neal Thomson in Riga, New York, on September 2, 1831, he grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and later made his name as a journalist and humorist. He is best remembered by his pseudonym, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, a name that appeared on the comic and satirical pieces that made him well known in mid-19th-century American newspapers.
His writing mixed wit, parody, and social observation, and he also published books including Doesticks, What He Says and Nothing to Say. Alongside his newspaper and literary work, he reported on public life in New York and built a reputation as a lively, distinctive voice in American humor writing.
Thomson died on June 25, 1875. Though his pen name is more famous than his given name, his work remains a vivid example of the fast, funny, personality-driven journalism that entertained 19th-century readers.