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Portrait of author Eric Hodgins in 1948. Photograph by Joseph Janney Steinmetz, held by State Archives of Florida. Born. 2 March 1899. Detroit. Died. 7 January 1971 (aged 71) [ edit on Wikidata] Eric Francis Hodgins (March 2, 1899 – January 7, 1971) was the American author of the popular novel Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, illustrated ...
Nov 16, 2009 · Eric Hodgins, the Real Mr. Blandings: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House “wrote itself,” he said. It was published in 1946 and was an instant bestseller. He made $200,000 on the movie rights alone, and the film was a hit. Hodgins wrote a sequel called Blandings Way in 1950 (affiliate link).
Jan 8, 1971 · Eric Hodgins, whose 1946 first novel, “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” became a best seller and whose later ef forts to overcome the effects of a stroke was the subject of his prize ...
Born 1899, Eric Francis Hodgins was the American author of the popular Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946). Hodgins served as editor in chief of The Youth Companion, associate editor of Redbook, and then as associate editor of Fortune magazine. He became publisher of Fortune in 1937, and a vice president of Time Inc. in 1938.
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Followed by. Blandings' Way. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1946 comedy novel written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig, describing the vicissitudes of buying a home in the country. It originally appeared as a short story called "Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle" in the April 1946 issue of Fortune magazine.
- Eric Hodgins, William Steig
- 1946
Sep 4, 1975 · NEW MILFORD, Conn.—. With the farmhouse and the tree, Eric Hodgins began his wry, amusing novel, “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” published in 1946. In it, he described the hilarious ...
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Eric Hodgins' 1946 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a wry, thoroughly enjoyable 5-star tale of a well-to-do advertising executive of the innocent interwar period and his droll and long-suffering wife on the grueling, years-long quest, part Thorstein Veblen and part "ravishing desire" (1946 Simon & Schuster hardcover, page 14), for a ...
