Herbert Oswald Nicholas Kubly was born in New Glarus, Wisconsin in 1915. He graduated
in 1937 from the University of Wisconsin with a journalism degree. He was a
newspaper editor, journalist, and literary critic for several newspapers including
the New York Herald Tribune. He was also a novelist,
essayist, and playwright. He was the recipient of both Rockefeller and Fulbright
grants. In 1956, Kubly won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his first
book, American in Italy. Kubly taught at the
University of Illinois, San Francisco State University, and was writer-in-residence
at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He died in 1996.
