Tudor Storrs Jenks (May 7, 1857 – February 11, 1922)[1] was an American writer, poet, artist and editor, as well as a journalist and lawyer. He is chiefly remembered for the popular works of fiction and nonfiction he wrote for children and general readers.
Jenks was born on May 7, 1857, inBrooklyn,New York, the son of Grenville Tudor Jenks and Persis Sophia (Smith) Jenks. His older brother wasAlmet F. Jenks, presiding justice of the appellate division of theNew York Supreme Court. His younger brother Paul E. Jenks served as American vice consul in Yokohama, Japan. He was a grand-nephew ofWendell Phillips. He married, October 5, 1882, Mary Donnison Ford. They had three daughters, Dorothy, Pauline, and Amabel, the last of whom Jenks collaborated with on a play. He lived inBronxville,New York, where he died at his home, of apoplexy, on February 11, 1922. He was survived by his wife and daughters.
The Century World's fair book for boys and girls; being the adventures of Harry and Philip with their tutor, Mr. Douglass, at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) (Internet Archive e-text)
The Book of Famous Sieges (1909) (Google e-text) (Internet Archive e-text)
The Boys' Book of Explorations; true stories of the heroes of travel and discovery in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas. From the "Dark Ages" to the "wonderful century" (1900) (Internet Archive e-text)
Our army for our boys; a brief story of its organization, development and equipment from 1775 to the present day (1906)
When America Was New (1907) (Internet Archive e-text)
When America Won Liberty: Patriots and Royalists (1909) (Google e-text)
Browne, William B.Genealogy of the Jenks family of America. Concord, N.H.?: W.B. Browne, 1952.
Herringshaw, Thomas William.Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: American Publishers Association, 1902.
Johnson, Rossiter, ed.Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904.
Kilmer, Joyce. "Too Many Books Spoil the Modern Child," article inThe New York Times, February 6, 1916.
"Tudor Jenks Dies Suddenly," article inThe New York Times, February 12, 1922.
Who's Who in America, a Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States, 1903–1905. Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company.
Who's who in New York City and State : a biographical dictionary of contemporaries. New York: W.F. Brainard, 1911.
Works by or aboutTudor Jenks atWikisource
