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(1956-2022) Author, critic, biographer, playwright, librettist, memoirist. Terry Teachout was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and died in Smithtown, New York. He wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The Daily News and other publications.

Full Name

Terry Teachout

Locations

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Author's Timeline


1956

BIRTH

Terrance Alan Teachout was born in Cape Girardeau, in southeast Missouri, on February 6, 1956.

1985

RESIDENCE

Mr. Teachout moved to New York in 1985.

1989

LITWORK

Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931���1959
Regnery Gateway
0895267659 / 978-0895267658
Nonfiction edited by Mr. Teachout.

1990

LITWORK

Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture and Politics
Poseidon Press
0671686399 / 978-0671686390
Collection of essays edited by Terry Teachout.

1991

LITWORK

City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy
Simon & Schuster
0671683519 / 978-0671683511
Memoir.

2002

LITWORK

The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
Harper
0060505281 / 978-0060505288
Biography.

2004

LITWORK

All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine
Harcourt
0151010889 / 978-0151010882
Biography.

2004

LITWORK

A Terry Teachout Reader
Yale University Press
0300098944 / 978-0300098945
Collection of essays.

2009

LITWORK

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0151010897 / 978-0151010899
Biography.

2011

LITWORK

Satchmo at the Waldorf


Play.

2013

LITWORK

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Avery
1592407498 / 978-1592407491
Biography.

2017

LITWORK

Billy and Me


Play.

2022

DEATH

Terry Teachout died at the home of a friend in Smithtown, New York, on January 13, 2022.

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