Leonard Cline's Newspaper Work

Cline c. 1922, on the Baltimore Sun

Cline worked on many newspapers during his short life, beginning during his college days in Ann Arbor at the Michigan Daily.  After he left college, he had short stints on several Michigan newspapers, including the Bay City Tribune, and the Ypsilanti Daily Ypsilantian-Press. He settled in Detroit and was on the staff of the Detroit Journal for 1915 and most of 1916. By December 1916, he had landed at the Detroit News, where he would stay until early 1922, when he took a job offered to him by H.L. Mencken on the Baltimore Sun.  He lasted in Baltimore for about a year, and then ascended to the New York World, where he stayed for something over one year. Next came a prized position on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he had his own column, titled "If This Be Treason--." That lasted from about October 1924 through February 1925, after which he contributed free-lance articles to the Chicago Herald & Examiner, and the New York Herald Tribune. His final newspaper work was on the Chicago Daily News from around November 1925 through circa April 1926. 

Much of his newspaper work was as a reporter, but his book reviews, poems, and literary columns, for the Detroit News, the New York World, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the books section of the New York Herald Tribune, are of especial interest. Future entries on this blog will cover a wide range of his newspaper work.