Paul Jordan-Smith
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Paul Jordan-Smith (October 14, 1885 – June 17, 1971) was an American journalist, editor, and author from Los Angeles, California.
He produced an all-English edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, and, posing as the fictitious "Pavel Jerdanowitch", founded the Disumbrationist school of modern painting as a hoax.[1] He was married to (they later divorced) writer Sarah Bixby Smith.[2][3]
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- ^ (27 January 1931). Pictures Painted to "Show Up" the Critics Bring Fame to Mythical Modernistic Artist, Lawrence Journal-World (Associated Press)
- ^ (14 September 1935). Sarah Bixby Smith: Author's Work Included a Book on Americanization, The New York Times
- ^ (18 June 1971). Ex-Times Book Editor Paul Jordan-Smith Dies, Los Angeles Times ("Paul Jordan-Smith, 86, former book editor of The Times and one of the leading authorities on the writings of 17th century author Robert Burton, died Thursday in Santa Monica Hospital.")
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