Father of the Bride (20 page)

In 1949, Streeter published
Father of the Bride.
The book was a major success, selling more than seventy thousand copies and becoming one of the year’s top-ten bestsellers. In 1950,
Father of the Bride
enjoyed more celebrity when it was made into a film starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.

Streeter went on to write six more books:
Skoal Scandinavia
(1952),
Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation
(1954),
Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter
(1956),
Chairman of the Bored
(1961),
Along the Ridge
(1964), and
Ham Martin, Class of
77 (1969).

As a humorist, Edward Streeter enjoyed only modest celebrity, but his most famous work,
Father of the Bride,
has lasted the ages.

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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Gluyas Williams

(1888–1982)

Gluyas Williams trained as an artist in Paris at Colorossi’s Atelier and returned to be the leading graphic cartoonist in America. He became famous for cartoons and drawings in
The New Yorker, Life, Cosmopolitan,
and various newspapers. He illustrated Streeter’s
Daily Except Sundays
and
Father of the Bride
and other books by Robert Benchley, William Freeman, and Corey Ford.

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ISBN 978-1-4767-9929-2 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4767-9930-8 (ebook)