Cremated at Mission Burial Park Crematory, San Antonio.
Suicide: Self-inflicted shotgun wound, at home, 12 1/2 miles N.E. of Lampasas.
His parents were Walter Walker & Cora Stanley.
Occupation: Newspaper Editor & Writer
Source of above information: Death Certificate
Stanley Walker (1898-1962) was born near Lampasas, Texas, to Walter Walker and Cora Stanley Walker, and named Earl Stanley Walker. He was a prominent mid-twentieth-century journalist and author with a lively style who chronicled the rise and fall of Prohibition in New York City. Additionally, he wrote several biographies and works about Texas.
He is the published author of the following books:
The Night Club Era
City Editor
Mrs. Astor's Horse
Journey To the Sunlight
Dewey: An American of This Century
This Is Wendall Wilkie
Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo
Texas (accompanied with many images by contemporary photographers)
Home To Texas
From 1960 to 1969, the Texas Institute of Letters (www.texasinsituteofletters.org) gave moneyed awards in Stanley Walker's honor to writers and newspaper reporters.
Stanley Walker's first book, The Night Club Era (1933), described the arrival of the era of Prohibition. While living in New York during that time he witnessed the alcohol-fueled culture and its gangsters, Broadway stars and shady politicians.
Stanley Walker gained fame as city editor of the Herald-Tribune in New York City and as a writer of books which enjoyed wide popularity. Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) said of Walker on the U.S. Senate floor after Walker's death, "He became a legend in his own lifetime."
His book, City Editor (1934)—with its rollicking tales of newsroom culture and adventurism during the dawn of the Tabloid Age—influenced generations of journalists, including his niece, Jane Walker Williamson, a genealogy author, to pursue professional writing, seek out newspaper work and approach it with ethics, vigor and common sense. Walker spoke of his colleagues in journalism with both admiration and occasional disdain. He described the best reporters this way: "They have legs, wind, imagination, knowledge, a sleepless curiosity and they can write the Saxon tongue."
Stanley Walker grew up on his family's home-place which was an approximate 1,000-acre-sized functioning farm and ranch located 15 miles northeast of Lampasas, Texas.
After earning a journalism degree from the University of Texas in 1918, he worked for various Texas newspapers before moving to New York City in 1920 to join the Herald Tribune as a reporter. Within a few short years at that position he became the paper's city editor, achieving a position conducive to chronicling the roaring, raucous decades of the 1920s and 1930s.
Walker's articles also appeared in prominent magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Vanity Fair and The Mercury. For a time he was a member of the New Yorker magazine staff. An article by Walker about the state of Texas was published in National Geographic in 1961. This became part of his photo-illustrated book entitled, Texas.
As a biographer he wrote books about other famous people, including observations made about two men prior to their presidential runs: This is Wendall Wilkie and Dewey: An American of This Century.
Walker was hired to write another biography, specifically about one of the Dominican Republic's revolutionary leaders. That work became a smaller booklet, Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo.
In 1923 Walker married Mary Louise Sandefer. They had two children—Joan Sandefer and James Stanley—while living in New York. In 1944 in Abilene, Texas, Mary Louise Sandefer Walker died of cancer.
Soon after his wife's death Walker chose to abandon New York City. He wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post expressing that "The City has become increasingly difficult as a place to live and work. It is also next to impossible to visit the place with any degree of comfort. For all its occasional charming aspects, it is a strangling bedlam."
So, in 1946, accompanied by his second wife, Ruth Howell, he literally went home to Texas…settling on his portion of the original Walker family ranch. There he developed and cultured the land of his beloved "Black Sheep Retreat" which consisted of 200+ acres of typical, rocky Central Texas terrain. While continuing to write articles and books, he raised cows, sheep, ducks and vegetables on fertile soil that he terraced himself with large, flat, indigenous stones. Much of his heartwarming Home To Texas was about this pastoral life and the peculiar personalities and habits he encountered. In the year 2020 a variety of the wild onions, once grown, cultivated and shared with neighbors by Stanley Walker were still being planted and enjoyed by his surviving, gardening neighbors.
At his ranch circa 1961, he was visited and interviewed for his perspective about New York City as it was in the 1920s and 1930s. Within the resultant documentary he speaks insightfully. It was narrated by Walter Cronkite, originally aired on national television and is now available on YouTube.
20C History Project on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJli7fcv670
Unfortunately, Stanley Walker died Nov. 25, 1962, on his ranch from a gunshot wound. There has been speculation that he took his own life after he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Although the death was ruled suicide, some family members have wondered if perhaps his published, public criticisms might have made him a target for violence.
Today, north of Lampasas, stands a Texas State Historical Marker for him on the west side of U. S. Highway 281, a mere two miles from Stanley Walker's birthplace.
Suicide: Self-inflicted shotgun wound, at home, 12 1/2 miles N.E. of Lampasas.
His parents were Walter Walker & Cora Stanley.
Occupation: Newspaper Editor & Writer
Source of above information: Death Certificate
Stanley Walker (1898-1962) was born near Lampasas, Texas, to Walter Walker and Cora Stanley Walker, and named Earl Stanley Walker. He was a prominent mid-twentieth-century journalist and author with a lively style who chronicled the rise and fall of Prohibition in New York City. Additionally, he wrote several biographies and works about Texas.
He is the published author of the following books:
The Night Club Era
City Editor
Mrs. Astor's Horse
Journey To the Sunlight
Dewey: An American of This Century
This Is Wendall Wilkie
Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo
Texas (accompanied with many images by contemporary photographers)
Home To Texas
From 1960 to 1969, the Texas Institute of Letters (www.texasinsituteofletters.org) gave moneyed awards in Stanley Walker's honor to writers and newspaper reporters.
Stanley Walker's first book, The Night Club Era (1933), described the arrival of the era of Prohibition. While living in New York during that time he witnessed the alcohol-fueled culture and its gangsters, Broadway stars and shady politicians.
Stanley Walker gained fame as city editor of the Herald-Tribune in New York City and as a writer of books which enjoyed wide popularity. Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) said of Walker on the U.S. Senate floor after Walker's death, "He became a legend in his own lifetime."
His book, City Editor (1934)—with its rollicking tales of newsroom culture and adventurism during the dawn of the Tabloid Age—influenced generations of journalists, including his niece, Jane Walker Williamson, a genealogy author, to pursue professional writing, seek out newspaper work and approach it with ethics, vigor and common sense. Walker spoke of his colleagues in journalism with both admiration and occasional disdain. He described the best reporters this way: "They have legs, wind, imagination, knowledge, a sleepless curiosity and they can write the Saxon tongue."
Stanley Walker grew up on his family's home-place which was an approximate 1,000-acre-sized functioning farm and ranch located 15 miles northeast of Lampasas, Texas.
After earning a journalism degree from the University of Texas in 1918, he worked for various Texas newspapers before moving to New York City in 1920 to join the Herald Tribune as a reporter. Within a few short years at that position he became the paper's city editor, achieving a position conducive to chronicling the roaring, raucous decades of the 1920s and 1930s.
Walker's articles also appeared in prominent magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Vanity Fair and The Mercury. For a time he was a member of the New Yorker magazine staff. An article by Walker about the state of Texas was published in National Geographic in 1961. This became part of his photo-illustrated book entitled, Texas.
As a biographer he wrote books about other famous people, including observations made about two men prior to their presidential runs: This is Wendall Wilkie and Dewey: An American of This Century.
Walker was hired to write another biography, specifically about one of the Dominican Republic's revolutionary leaders. That work became a smaller booklet, Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo.
In 1923 Walker married Mary Louise Sandefer. They had two children—Joan Sandefer and James Stanley—while living in New York. In 1944 in Abilene, Texas, Mary Louise Sandefer Walker died of cancer.
Soon after his wife's death Walker chose to abandon New York City. He wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post expressing that "The City has become increasingly difficult as a place to live and work. It is also next to impossible to visit the place with any degree of comfort. For all its occasional charming aspects, it is a strangling bedlam."
So, in 1946, accompanied by his second wife, Ruth Howell, he literally went home to Texas…settling on his portion of the original Walker family ranch. There he developed and cultured the land of his beloved "Black Sheep Retreat" which consisted of 200+ acres of typical, rocky Central Texas terrain. While continuing to write articles and books, he raised cows, sheep, ducks and vegetables on fertile soil that he terraced himself with large, flat, indigenous stones. Much of his heartwarming Home To Texas was about this pastoral life and the peculiar personalities and habits he encountered. In the year 2020 a variety of the wild onions, once grown, cultivated and shared with neighbors by Stanley Walker were still being planted and enjoyed by his surviving, gardening neighbors.
At his ranch circa 1961, he was visited and interviewed for his perspective about New York City as it was in the 1920s and 1930s. Within the resultant documentary he speaks insightfully. It was narrated by Walter Cronkite, originally aired on national television and is now available on YouTube.
20C History Project on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJli7fcv670
Unfortunately, Stanley Walker died Nov. 25, 1962, on his ranch from a gunshot wound. There has been speculation that he took his own life after he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Although the death was ruled suicide, some family members have wondered if perhaps his published, public criticisms might have made him a target for violence.
Today, north of Lampasas, stands a Texas State Historical Marker for him on the west side of U. S. Highway 281, a mere two miles from Stanley Walker's birthplace.
Cremated at Mission Burial Park Crematory, San Antonio.
Suicide: Self-inflicted shotgun wound, at home, 12 1/2 miles N.E. of Lampasas.
His parents were Walter Walker & Cora Stanley.
Occupation: Newspaper Editor & Writer
Source of above information: Death Certificate
Stanley Walker (1898-1962) was born near Lampasas, Texas, to Walter Walker and Cora Stanley Walker, and named Earl Stanley Walker. He was a prominent mid-twentieth-century journalist and author with a lively style who chronicled the rise and fall of Prohibition in New York City. Additionally, he wrote several biographies and works about Texas.
He is the published author of the following books:
The Night Club Era
City Editor
Mrs. Astor's Horse
Journey To the Sunlight
Dewey: An American of This Century
This Is Wendall Wilkie
Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo
Texas (accompanied with many images by contemporary photographers)
Home To Texas
From 1960 to 1969, the Texas Institute of Letters (www.texasinsituteofletters.org) gave moneyed awards in Stanley Walker's honor to writers and newspaper reporters.
Stanley Walker's first book, The Night Club Era (1933), described the arrival of the era of Prohibition. While living in New York during that time he witnessed the alcohol-fueled culture and its gangsters, Broadway stars and shady politicians.
Stanley Walker gained fame as city editor of the Herald-Tribune in New York City and as a writer of books which enjoyed wide popularity. Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) said of Walker on the U.S. Senate floor after Walker's death, "He became a legend in his own lifetime."
His book, City Editor (1934)—with its rollicking tales of newsroom culture and adventurism during the dawn of the Tabloid Age—influenced generations of journalists, including his niece, Jane Walker Williamson, a genealogy author, to pursue professional writing, seek out newspaper work and approach it with ethics, vigor and common sense. Walker spoke of his colleagues in journalism with both admiration and occasional disdain. He described the best reporters this way: "They have legs, wind, imagination, knowledge, a sleepless curiosity and they can write the Saxon tongue."
Stanley Walker grew up on his family's home-place which was an approximate 1,000-acre-sized functioning farm and ranch located 15 miles northeast of Lampasas, Texas.
After earning a journalism degree from the University of Texas in 1918, he worked for various Texas newspapers before moving to New York City in 1920 to join the Herald Tribune as a reporter. Within a few short years at that position he became the paper's city editor, achieving a position conducive to chronicling the roaring, raucous decades of the 1920s and 1930s.
Walker's articles also appeared in prominent magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Vanity Fair and The Mercury. For a time he was a member of the New Yorker magazine staff. An article by Walker about the state of Texas was published in National Geographic in 1961. This became part of his photo-illustrated book entitled, Texas.
As a biographer he wrote books about other famous people, including observations made about two men prior to their presidential runs: This is Wendall Wilkie and Dewey: An American of This Century.
Walker was hired to write another biography, specifically about one of the Dominican Republic's revolutionary leaders. That work became a smaller booklet, Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo.
In 1923 Walker married Mary Louise Sandefer. They had two children—Joan Sandefer and James Stanley—while living in New York. In 1944 in Abilene, Texas, Mary Louise Sandefer Walker died of cancer.
Soon after his wife's death Walker chose to abandon New York City. He wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post expressing that "The City has become increasingly difficult as a place to live and work. It is also next to impossible to visit the place with any degree of comfort. For all its occasional charming aspects, it is a strangling bedlam."
So, in 1946, accompanied by his second wife, Ruth Howell, he literally went home to Texas…settling on his portion of the original Walker family ranch. There he developed and cultured the land of his beloved "Black Sheep Retreat" which consisted of 200+ acres of typical, rocky Central Texas terrain. While continuing to write articles and books, he raised cows, sheep, ducks and vegetables on fertile soil that he terraced himself with large, flat, indigenous stones. Much of his heartwarming Home To Texas was about this pastoral life and the peculiar personalities and habits he encountered. In the year 2020 a variety of the wild onions, once grown, cultivated and shared with neighbors by Stanley Walker were still being planted and enjoyed by his surviving, gardening neighbors.
At his ranch circa 1961, he was visited and interviewed for his perspective about New York City as it was in the 1920s and 1930s. Within the resultant documentary he speaks insightfully. It was narrated by Walter Cronkite, originally aired on national television and is now available on YouTube.
20C History Project on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJli7fcv670
Unfortunately, Stanley Walker died Nov. 25, 1962, on his ranch from a gunshot wound. There has been speculation that he took his own life after he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Although the death was ruled suicide, some family members have wondered if perhaps his published, public criticisms might have made him a target for violence.
Today, north of Lampasas, stands a Texas State Historical Marker for him on the west side of U. S. Highway 281, a mere two miles from Stanley Walker's birthplace.
Suicide: Self-inflicted shotgun wound, at home, 12 1/2 miles N.E. of Lampasas.
His parents were Walter Walker & Cora Stanley.
Occupation: Newspaper Editor & Writer
Source of above information: Death Certificate
Stanley Walker (1898-1962) was born near Lampasas, Texas, to Walter Walker and Cora Stanley Walker, and named Earl Stanley Walker. He was a prominent mid-twentieth-century journalist and author with a lively style who chronicled the rise and fall of Prohibition in New York City. Additionally, he wrote several biographies and works about Texas.
He is the published author of the following books:
The Night Club Era
City Editor
Mrs. Astor's Horse
Journey To the Sunlight
Dewey: An American of This Century
This Is Wendall Wilkie
Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo
Texas (accompanied with many images by contemporary photographers)
Home To Texas
From 1960 to 1969, the Texas Institute of Letters (www.texasinsituteofletters.org) gave moneyed awards in Stanley Walker's honor to writers and newspaper reporters.
Stanley Walker's first book, The Night Club Era (1933), described the arrival of the era of Prohibition. While living in New York during that time he witnessed the alcohol-fueled culture and its gangsters, Broadway stars and shady politicians.
Stanley Walker gained fame as city editor of the Herald-Tribune in New York City and as a writer of books which enjoyed wide popularity. Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) said of Walker on the U.S. Senate floor after Walker's death, "He became a legend in his own lifetime."
His book, City Editor (1934)—with its rollicking tales of newsroom culture and adventurism during the dawn of the Tabloid Age—influenced generations of journalists, including his niece, Jane Walker Williamson, a genealogy author, to pursue professional writing, seek out newspaper work and approach it with ethics, vigor and common sense. Walker spoke of his colleagues in journalism with both admiration and occasional disdain. He described the best reporters this way: "They have legs, wind, imagination, knowledge, a sleepless curiosity and they can write the Saxon tongue."
Stanley Walker grew up on his family's home-place which was an approximate 1,000-acre-sized functioning farm and ranch located 15 miles northeast of Lampasas, Texas.
After earning a journalism degree from the University of Texas in 1918, he worked for various Texas newspapers before moving to New York City in 1920 to join the Herald Tribune as a reporter. Within a few short years at that position he became the paper's city editor, achieving a position conducive to chronicling the roaring, raucous decades of the 1920s and 1930s.
Walker's articles also appeared in prominent magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Vanity Fair and The Mercury. For a time he was a member of the New Yorker magazine staff. An article by Walker about the state of Texas was published in National Geographic in 1961. This became part of his photo-illustrated book entitled, Texas.
As a biographer he wrote books about other famous people, including observations made about two men prior to their presidential runs: This is Wendall Wilkie and Dewey: An American of This Century.
Walker was hired to write another biography, specifically about one of the Dominican Republic's revolutionary leaders. That work became a smaller booklet, Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo.
In 1923 Walker married Mary Louise Sandefer. They had two children—Joan Sandefer and James Stanley—while living in New York. In 1944 in Abilene, Texas, Mary Louise Sandefer Walker died of cancer.
Soon after his wife's death Walker chose to abandon New York City. He wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post expressing that "The City has become increasingly difficult as a place to live and work. It is also next to impossible to visit the place with any degree of comfort. For all its occasional charming aspects, it is a strangling bedlam."
So, in 1946, accompanied by his second wife, Ruth Howell, he literally went home to Texas…settling on his portion of the original Walker family ranch. There he developed and cultured the land of his beloved "Black Sheep Retreat" which consisted of 200+ acres of typical, rocky Central Texas terrain. While continuing to write articles and books, he raised cows, sheep, ducks and vegetables on fertile soil that he terraced himself with large, flat, indigenous stones. Much of his heartwarming Home To Texas was about this pastoral life and the peculiar personalities and habits he encountered. In the year 2020 a variety of the wild onions, once grown, cultivated and shared with neighbors by Stanley Walker were still being planted and enjoyed by his surviving, gardening neighbors.
At his ranch circa 1961, he was visited and interviewed for his perspective about New York City as it was in the 1920s and 1930s. Within the resultant documentary he speaks insightfully. It was narrated by Walter Cronkite, originally aired on national television and is now available on YouTube.
20C History Project on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJli7fcv670
Unfortunately, Stanley Walker died Nov. 25, 1962, on his ranch from a gunshot wound. There has been speculation that he took his own life after he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Although the death was ruled suicide, some family members have wondered if perhaps his published, public criticisms might have made him a target for violence.
Today, north of Lampasas, stands a Texas State Historical Marker for him on the west side of U. S. Highway 281, a mere two miles from Stanley Walker's birthplace.
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