| birth_place = Andover, Connecticut2015155|28}}| death_place = Manhattan, New York| alma_mater = Williams College| other_names = | occupation = Author| years_active = Janet Tillson1974|reason=div.}}(Our Crowd>Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York)}}Stephen Gardner Birmingham (May 28, 1929 – November 15, 2015) was an American author known for his social histories of wealthy American families, often focusing on ethnicity â€” Jews (his “Jewish trilogy”: Our Crowd, The Grandees, The Rest of Us), African-Americans (Certain People), Irish (Real Lace), and the Anglo-Dutch (America’s Secret Aristocracy). He also wrote several novels, also about wealthy people.

Biography

Birmingham was born in Andover, Connecticut in 1929 to Editha Birmingham (nÃ©e Gardner) and Thomas Birmingham, a lawyer of Irish descent.Real Lace, Foreword, xi He was not born into an upper-class family, but attended the elite Hotchkiss School, of which he later recalled “there were no blacks, maybe one Chinese person, who was the son of a missionary, and a quota on Jews.“NEWS, Roberts, Sam, Stephen Birmingham, Chronicler of the Rich and Other Elites, Dies at 86,www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/nyregion/stephen-birmingham-chronicler-of-the-rich-and-other-elites-dies-at-86.html, May 1, 2017, The New York Times, November 18, 2015, He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Williams College in 1950, and then worked as an advertising copywriter for Needham Harper Steers (now DDB Worldwide) in New York City. Among his clients was the popular magazine Ladies’ Home Journal, for which Birmingham was credited with coining the slogan “Never underestimate the power of a woman.“He was a teacher of writing at the University of Cincinnati and also studied for a time in England. He married Janet Tillson in 1953 and they had three children, but later divorced.NEWS,www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/stephen-birmingham-author-of-our-crowd-other-bestsellers-dies-at-86/2015/11/18/e44aebd0-8e0d-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html, Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86, Matt, Schudel, 18 November 2015, 1 May 2017, The Washington Post, Birmingham had a great interest in the upper classes, and wrote numerous books about the wealthy in the United States, generally focusing on their ethnicity, national origins, and geographic locale. His biographies include those of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Wallis Warfield Windsor, and novelist John Marquand. His study of the African-American upper class â€” Certain People â€” generated some controversy and was panned by The New York Times.His other books, however, were often acclaimed. His trilogy of books on American Jews: (Our Crowd|Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York), The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite, and The Rest of Us: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews are perhaps his best known works. Our Crowd was on The New York Times Bestseller List for 47 weeks; its notoriety led to people often mistakenly assuming Birmingham was Jewish himself.Our Crowd has been translated in French by Pierre de Longuemar and published in 2023 under the title : Notre Monde. Histoire des grandes familles juives de New York, Paris, Exils, 2023, 406 p. ISNB 978-2-914823-30-2Birmingham died on November 15, 2015, at the age of 86 in New York City, from lung cancer.

Works

Non-fiction

BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Stephen Birmingham, Kolowrat, Ernest, Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School, New York, New Amsterdam Books, 1992, 1â€“12, What Made Maria Do It?, 1-56131-058-1,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, America’s Secret Aristocracy, Little, Brown, Boston, 1987, 0-316-09650-4,archive.org/details/americassecretar00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Ordealsâ€”and Triumphsâ€”of American Jews, Triangle Publications, Radnor, 1985,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Rest of Us: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews, Little, Brown, Boston, 1984, 0-316-09647-4,archive.org/details/therestofusri00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Grandes Dames, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1982, 0-671-25585-1,archive.org/details/grandesdames00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Duchess: The Story of Wallis Warfield Windsor, Little, Brown, Boston, 1981, 0-316-09643-1,archive.org/details/duchessstoryofwa00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, California Rich, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1980, 0-671-24127-3,archive.org/details/californiarich00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address, Random House, New York, 1979, 0-394-41079-3,archive.org/details/lifeatdakotanew00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Golden Dream: Suburbia in the Seventies, Harper & Row, New York, 1978, 0-060-10334-5,archive.org/details/goldendreamsubur00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1978, 0-448-14306-2,archive.org/details/jacquelinebouvie00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Certain People: America’s Black Elite, Little, Brown, 1977, 0-316-09642-3,archive.org/details/certainpeopleame00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Right Places, Little, Brown, Boston, 1973, 0-316-09641-5,archive.org/details/rightplaces00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Real Lace: America’s Irish Rich, Harper & Row, New York, 1973, 0-060-10336-1,archive.org/details/reallaceamerica000birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Late John Marquand: A Biography, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1972, 0-397-00886-4,archive.org/details/latejohnmarquand00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite,archive.org/details/grandeesamericas0000birm, registration, Harper & Row, New York, 1971, 130038,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Right People: A Portrait of the American Social Establishment,archive.org/details/rightpeopleportr00birm, registration, Little, Brown, Boston, 1968,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York, Harper & Row, New York, 1967,

Fiction

Short stories

BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Heart Troubles, Short Stories, Harper & Row, New York, 1968, 0-582-10014-3,

Novels

BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Wrong Kind of Money, Penguin Books, New York, 1998, 0-451-19304-0,archive.org/details/wrongkindofmoney00birm,
Birmingham, Stephen. (1993). Carriage Trade. Bantam.
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Rothman Scandal, Little, Brown, Boston, 1991, 0-316-09654-7,archive.org/details/rothmanscandalno00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, Shades of Fortune, Jove Books, New York, 1989, 0-515-10844-8,archive.org/details/shadesoffortune00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The LeBaron Secret, Berkley Publishing Group, New York, 1986, 0-425-09633-5,archive.org/details/lebaronsecret00birm,
BOOK, Birmingham, Stephen, The Auerbach Will, Berkley Books, New York, 1983, 0-425-07101-4,archive.org/details/auerbachwill00birm,
Birmingham, Stephen (1964). Those Harper Women: A Novel. McGraw-Hill.
Birmingham, Stephen (1959). Barbara Greer. Little Brown & Co.
Birmingham, Stephen (1966). Fast Start, Fast Finish
Birmingham, Stephen (1961). The Tower of Love
Birmingham, Stephen (1958). Young Mr Keefe

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