Eduard Willem Bok

Eduard William Bok (gebore Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok) (9 Oktober 1863 – 9 Januarie 1930) was 'n Nederlands-gebore Amerikaanse redakteur en bekroonde skrywer. Hy het 'n Pulitzerprys gewen vir sy skryfwerk. Hy was dertig jaar lank redakteur van die Ladies' Home Journal (1889-1919). Hy het ook Bok Tower Gardens in die middel van Florida, V.S.A. opgerig.

Lewe 
Bok is in Den Helder, Nederland gebore. Op die ouderdom van ses het hy na Brooklyn, New York geïmmigreer. In Brooklyn het hy na skoolure die vensters van 'n bakkery gewas om sy gesin te help. Sy mense was so arm dat hy boonop elke dag met 'n mandjie in die straat uitgaan en stukkies steenkool versamel wat in die geut geval het, waar die steenkoolwaens brandstof gelewer het.

In 1896 trou Bok met Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist, die dogter van Louisa en Cyrus Curtis.

In 1882 begin Bok werk by Henry Holt and Company. In 1884 raak hy betrokke by Charles Scribner's Sons, waar hy uiteindelik die resensiebestuurder word. Van 1884 tot 1887 was Bok die redakteur van The Brooklyn Magazine, en in 1886 stig hy die Bok Syndicate Press. Nadat hy in 1889 na Philadelphia verhuis het, het hy die redaksie van Ladies Home Journal oorgeneem toe die stigter en redakteur Louisa Knapp Curtis haar tot 'n minder invloedryke rol onttrek het by die gewilde, nasionaalverspreide publikasie. Dit is gepubliseer deur Cyrus Curtis, 'n gevestigde uitgewery wat baie koerante en tydskrifte gepubliseer het.

Werke 
Successward (1895) aanlyn
The Young Man in Business (1895) aanlyn (Google Books)
The Young Man & The Church (1896) (Google Books)
Her Brother's Letters (1906)
Why I Believe in Poverty (1915)  aanlyn
The Americanization of Edward Bok (1920)  aanlyn gratis (Google Books, 1922 edition)
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, edited by John Louis Haney (1921)
Two Persons (1922) (Google Books)
A Man from Maine (1923)
Twice Thirty (1925)
Dollars Only (1926) (Google Books voorskou)
You: A Personal Message (1926)
America Give Me a Chance (1926)
Perhaps I Am (1928)

Verwysings

Verdere leesstof 
 Bogardus, Ralph F. "Tea Wars: Advertising Photography and Ideology in the Ladies' Home Journal in the 1890s." Prospects 16 (1991) pp: 297-322.
 Damon-Moore, Helen. Magazines for the millions: Gender and commerce in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880-1910 (SUNY Press, 1994)
 Kitch, Carolyn. "The American Woman Series: Gender and Class in The Ladies' Home Journal, 1897." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 75.2 (1998): 243-262.
 Knight, Jan. "The Environmentalism of Edward Bok: The Ladies' Home Journal, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Environment, 1901-09." Journalism History 29.4 (2004): 154.
 Krabbendam, Hans. The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863-1930 (Rodopi, 2001)
 Lewis, W. David. "Edward Bok: the editor as entrepreneur." Essays in Economic & Business History 20 (2012).
 Mott, Frank Luther. A history of American magazines. vol 4. 1885-1905 (Harvard UP, 1957) pp 536–555.  covers Ladies Home Journal.
 Shi, David. " Edward Bok & The Simple Life" American Heritage (1984) 36#1 pp 100–109
 Snyder, Beth Dalia. "Confidence women: Constructing female culture and community in" Just Among Ourselves" and the Ladies' Home Journal." American Transcendental Quarterly 12#4 (1998): 311.
 Steinberg, Salme Harju. Reformer in the Marketplace: Edward W. Bok and the Ladies' Home Journal (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
 Ward, Douglas B. "The Geography of the Ladies' Home Journal: An Analysis of a Magazine's Audience, 1911-55." journalism History 34.1 (2008): 2+

Eksterne skakels 

 Bok se werke op Project Gutenburg
 Bok se werke op die Internet Archive
 Edward Bok profiele op die Internet Accuracy Project
 Successward (1895) aanlynweergawe van volledige gedigitaliseerde teks van die University of Michigan Library MBooks.

Skrywers