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Henry Cuyler Bunner (August 3, 1855 – May 11, 1896) was an American novelist, journalist and poet. He is known mainly for Tower of Babel.
Bunner's works have been praised by librarians for their "technical dexterity, playfulness and smoothness of finish".
Biography
Bunner was born on August 3, 1855, in Oswego, New York, to Rudolph Bunner Jr. (1813–1875) and Ruth Keating Tuckerman (1821–1896) and was educated in New York City. His paternal grandparents were Rudolph Bunner (1779–1837) and Elizabeth Church (1783–1867), the daughter of John Barker Church (1748–1818) and Angelica Schuyler (1756–1814).
From being a clerk in an importing house, he turned to journalism, and after some work as a reporter, and on the staff of the Arcadian (1873), he became in 1877 assistant editor of the comic weekly Puck. He soon assumed the editorship, which he held until his death. He developed Puck from a new struggling periodical into a powerful social and political organ.
In 1886, he published a novel, The Midge, followed in 1887 by The Story of a New York House. Other efforts in fiction were his short stories and sketches: "Short Sixes" (1891), "More Short Sixes" (1894), "Made in France" (1893), Zadoc Pine and Other Stories (1891), Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories (1896), and "Jersey Street and Jersey Lane" (1896). Among his poetic works Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere, published in 1884 and including one of his best known poems, "The Way to Arcady"; Rowen (1892), and Poems (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews and displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship. He also wrote clever vers de société and parodies. One of his several plays (usually written in collaboration) was The Tower of Babel (1883).
