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Paul Eldridge

Paul Eldridge was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married writer Sylvette de Lamar. He received his B.S. from Temple University in 1909, and became an instructor of English literature at Saint John's College in Philadelphia from 1910-1912. He earned his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911, and a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1913. He was a lecturer on American Literature at the Sorbonne in 1913. He taught romance languages at high schools in New York until his retirement in 1945. He is best known for collaborating with the American decadent novelist and poet George Sylvester Viereck on a trilogy of exotic fantasy novels from 1928 to 1932, My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, Salome: the Wandering Jewess, and Invincible Adam. A highly prolific author, many of his later books were published by E. Haldeman-Julius in his "Little Blue Books" series. He died at the age of 94 in a New York City nursing home on July 28, 1982.