Post, Samuel Herbert

1923 - 2005  (82 years)

• Name	Post, Samuel Herbert  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Born	27 Feb 1923	New York, New York, New York, USA   [3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Samuel Pasternak  [13]
  Residence	1930	Manhattan, New York, New York, USA   [13]
  	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
  Died	20 May 2005	Wickford Village, Washington, Rhode Island, USA   [3, 4, 5, 7, 8]
  Buried	Rhode Island Veteran Memorial Cemetery, Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, USA   [3, 4, 17, 18]
  Person ID	I19406	Our Family
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Trainer, Cynthia
  Married	Abt 2002  [19, 20]
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2024
  Family ID	F7379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Vos, Patricia Frances,   b. 13 Dec 1924, New York, New York, New York, USA ,   d. 14 Feb 1971  (Age 46 years)
  Married	9 Oct 1950	New York, New York, New York, USA   [1, 10, 12, 19, 20, 21]
  Divorced	Abt 1958
  Children	1. Post, Andrew William   2. Post, Nicholas Charles   3. Post, Jonathan Vos
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2024
  Family ID	F7380	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Stuart, Barbara,   b. 9 May 1931, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA ,   d. 29 Mar 2005, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Married	Abt 1959  [19, 20]
  Children	1. Post, Julia Hart   2. Post, Joshua Stuart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2024
  Family ID	F7381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Parents: Harry Pasternak and Theresa Salomon Samuel Herbert Post, aged 81, passed away at home, from inoperable cancer, on the evening of Friday 20 May 2005 in Wickford Village, Rhode Island. He was an editor and publisher of note in book, trade paperback, and magazine publishing, for such authors as Margery Allingham, Poul Anderson, Pearl S. Buck, Taylor Caldwell, Curtis W. Casewit, Winston Churchill, Mark Clifton, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Walter Walter Gibson, R. C. W. Ettinger, J. Hunter Holly, Damon Knight, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Veronica Lake, Hedy Lamarr, Murray Leinster, John Lymington, H. P. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long, George B. Mair, S. Michael, Sam Moskowitz, Senator George Murphy, Eric North [B. C. Cronin], Andre Norton, Alan E. Nourse, Dorothy Sayers, Clifford Simak, Edward E. "Doc" Smith, J. Stearn, William F. Temple, and A. E. van Vogt. One novel of his own was published, and a number of poems. A graduate of Harvard, cum laude, he served with distinction in World War II as a Pilot-Instructor for Free French pilots, including Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. He leaves a wife, Cynthia Trainer; five children, Jonathan Vos Post, Andrew William Post, Nicholas Charles Post, Joshua Stuart Post, Julia Hart Post; and five grandchildren. He had been an member of Science Fiction Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Western Writers of America, and the NRA. He worked with entertainers such as Judy Garland, editors such as Hugo Gernsback, poltitical leaders, poets and playrights. He had hundreds of anecdotes about celebrities he had met, from Neil Armstrong to T. S. Eliot, yet he believed in heartfelt conversation with ordinary people about subjects that mattered to him, including Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Theology. A modest innovator in publishing, he was responsible for the first book with a Pop Art cover, the first book with an Op Art cover, and the first "bookazine." He lamented the decline of book editing from the careful lifetime nurturing of authors and their manuscripts by professionals educated in World Literature, to mere acquisition of "product." A traditionally conservative Wall Street Republican whose father, Harry Pasternak, of Budapest, had risen from penniless immigrant to owner of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Samuel H. Post refused to vote for George W. Bush, whom he felt had betrayed the party and America. There will be funeral in or near Wickford Village, Rhode Island, on Wednesday 25 May 2005 A modest innovator in publishing, he was responsible for the first book with a Pop Art cover, the first book with an Op Art cover, and the first "bookazine." He lamented the decline of book editing from the careful lifetime nurturing of authors and their manuscripts by professionals educated in World Literature, to mere acquisition of "product." A traditionally conservative Wall Street Republican whose father, Harry Pasternak, of Budapest, had risen from penniless immigrant to owner of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Samuel H. Post refused to vote for George W. Bush, whom he felt had betrayed the party and America. There will be funeral in or near Wickford Village, Rhode Island, on Wednesday 25 May 2005 Parents: Harry Pasternak and Theresa Salomon Samuel Herbert Post, aged 81, passed away at home, from inoperable cancer, on the evening of Friday 20 May 2005 in Wickford Village, Rhode Island. He was an editor and publisher of note in book, trade paperback, and magazine publishing, for such authors as Margery Allingham, Poul Anderson, Pearl S. Buck, Taylor Caldwell, Curtis W. Casewit, Winston Churchill, Mark Clifton, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Walter Walter Gibson, R. C. W. Ettinger, J. Hunter Holly, Damon Knight, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Veronica Lake, Hedy Lamarr, Murray Leinster, John Lymington, H. P. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long, George B. Mair, S. Michael, Sam Moskowitz, Senator George Murphy, Eric North [B. C. Cronin], Andre Norton, Alan E. Nourse, Dorothy Sayers, Clifford Simak, Edward E. "Doc" Smith, J. Stearn, William F. Temple, and A. E. van Vogt. One novel of his own was published, and a number of poems. A graduate of Harvard, cum laude, he served with distinction in World War II as a Pilot-Instructor for Free French pilots, including Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. He leaves a wife, Cynthia Trainer; five children, Jonathan Vos Post, Andrew William Post, Nicholas Charles Post, Joshua Stuart Post, Julia Hart Post; and five grandchildren. He had been an member of Science Fiction Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Western Writers of America, and the NRA. He worked with entertainers such as Judy Garland, editors such as Hugo Gernsback, poltitical leaders, poets and playrights. He had hundreds of anecdotes about celebrities he had met, from Neil Armstrong to T. S. Eliot, yet he believed in heartfelt conversation with ordinary people about subjects that mattered to him, including Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Theology. A modest innovator in publishing, he was responsible for the first book with a Pop Art cover, the first book with an Op Art cover, and the first "bookazine." He lamented the decline of book editing from the careful lifetime nurturing of authors and their manuscripts by professionals educated in World Literature, to mere acquisition of "product." A traditionally conservative Wall Street Republican whose father, Harry Pasternak, of Budapest, had risen from penniless immigrant to owner of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Samuel H. Post refused to vote for George W. Bush, whom he felt had betrayed the party and America. There will be funeral in or near Wickford Village, Rhode Island, on Wednesday 25 May 2005

  
  

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