Notes for: Margaret Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
Keats was the author of 13 books, including New York Times best sellers, with translated copies appearing in nine languages. He wrote satirical social criticism leveled against post-war housing, automobiles and schools; biographies ("Howard Hughes: The Biography of a Texas Billionaire," Random House, 1966; and "You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker," Simon & Schuster, 1970); history ("They Fought Alone," Lippincott, 1963; and "Eminent Domain," Charterhouse, 1973) and two semiautobiographical works, "The New Romans: An American Experience" (Lippincott, 1967) and "Of Time and an Island" (Charterhouse, 1974).
His awards included the Literary Achievement Award from the Georgia Writers Association for nonfiction in 1958 for his book "Schools Without Scholars"; The Sydney Hillman Foundation Award for the 1962 television documentary "Conformity," appearing on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia; and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1961 to pursue his writing and research work for "They Fought Alone."
From 1974 until his retirement in 1990, Keats taught magazine writing at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, N.Y. Keats received his college degree from the State University of New York in 1977. He also attended the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania. See his obituary in numerous newspapers including the Lancaster (Pa.) "Intelligencer" of 15 Nov 2000 and the New York "Times" of 24 Nov 2000.
Obituary, the Philadelphia Inquirer of 1 Oct 1993.
MARGARET BODINE KEATS, 74, of Syracuse, N.Y., died Sunday of cancer at Whitehall Nursing Home in Lancaster. Mrs. Keats attended Germantown Friends School, where she starred on the field hockey and tennis teams and was a three-time winner of the school's tennis cup. She graduated from Smith College in 1941, again winning honors in hockey and tennis. While playing hockey at Smith, she scored 11 goals against the women's All-American team. Mrs. Keats served on various Parents Committees at Germantown Friends. She was a member of the board of the Citizens Committee on Public Education in Philadelphia. She moved to Syracuse in 1977, when her husband, John Cresswell Keats, a writer, was invited to become a professor of writing at Syracuse University. She taught herself, and became very fluent in Italian. She particularly enjoyed studying the Italian Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation in churches and museums in Florence. Survivors: besides her husband of 50 years, a son, Christopher John Keats; daughters, Margaret Keats Jenne and Voctoria Keats Frost; five grandchildren, and a brother. Services: memorial, 5 p.m. Sunday, Germantown Friends School Meeting House, 47 W. Coulter St., Germantown.
Obituary, the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal of 15 Nov 2000.
John C. Keats, 79, formerly of the Philadelphia area, died of natural causes Nov. 3 in Kingston, Ontario, near his summer home on Pine Island, Ontario. Keats was the author of 13 books, including New York Times best sellers, with translated copies appearing in nine languages. He wrote satirical social criticism leveled against post-war housing, automobiles and schools; biographies ("Howard Hughes: The Biography of a Texas Billionaire," Random House, 1966; and "You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker," Simon & Schuster, 1970); history ("They Fought Alone," Lippincott, 1963; and "Eminent Domain," Charterhouse, 1973) and two semiautobiographical works. His awards included the Literary Achievement Award from the Georgia Writers Association for nonfiction in 1958 for his book "Schools Without Scholars"; The Sydney Hillman Foundation Award for the 1962 television documentary "Conformity," appearing on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia; and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1961 to pursue his writing and research work for "They Fought Alone." From 1974 until his retirement in 1990, Keats taught magazine writing at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, N.Y. Keats received his college degree from the State University of New York in 1977. He also attended the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Born in Moultrie, Ga., he was the son of Harold and Helen Keats. His wife, Margaret Bodine Keats, died in 1993. Among his survivors are two daughters, Margaret Jenne of Lancaster and Victoria Frost of Minneapolis; a son, Christopher of Washington, D.C.; and five grandchildren.
Children: Christopher John (1944), Margaret (1945), Victoria (1952).