death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
1945 philadelphia united states 11 may 1861 van tassel sutphen
 william gilbert van tassel sutphen writer , editor
van tassel sutphen

william gilbert van tassel sutphen -lrb- 1861 -- 1945 -rrb- was an american playwright , librettist , novelist , and editor , an authority and author of publications on golf , and , eventually , an episcopalian minister .
sutphen was born in philadelphia on 11 may 1861 .
his parents were the rev. morris crater sutphen and eleanor -lrb- brush -rrb- sutphen .
he went to princeton university and graduated in 1882 .
sutphen wrote several novels , the most famous of which was `` the doomsman '' , a science fiction novel in the post-apocalyptic subgenre .
the scholar mike davis has suggested that sutphen `` purloined '' ideas and scenes for this book from an earlier post-apocalyptic novel , `` after london '' , by the english writer richard jeffries .
in his own time , sutphen was probably more famous as an authority on golf than for his novels .
he was the first editor of `` golf '' magazine , published by harper brothers .
he also coined the term `` the 19th hole '' .
he gave the library at princeton a collection of 75 books about golf .
sutphen worked for many years as a reader and editor , for the publishers harper brothers , working on novels by theodore dreiser among others .
at some point he became a brother-in-law of -lrb- the second -rrb- joseph harper .
as a leading figure at harpers , sutphen attended mark twain 's 70th birthday celebrations in new york .
