Joseph Wharton Lippincott

Joseph Wharton Lippincott (February 28, 1887^[1] – October 22, 1976) was a noted publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman. He was the grandson of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, and of industrialist Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

Family[edit]

He married Elizabeth Schuyler Mills in 1913, and the couple had two sons, Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr. and R. Schuyler Lippincott, and a daughter, Elizabeth (Betsy)^[3] Schuyler (Lippincott) Wilkes. His wife died in 1943 and he remarried Virginia (Jones) Mathieson in 1945.

Bun: a Wild Rabbit (1918)

Red Ben the Fox of Oak Ridge (1919)

Gray Squirrel (1921)

Striped Coat, the Skunk (1922) illustrated with photographs

Persimmon Jim the 'Possum (1924)

Long Horn, Leader of the Deer (1928) illustrated with photographs

The Wolf King (1933) illustrated by

Paul Bransom

The Red Roan Pony (1934) illustrated by

Lynn Bogue Hunt

Chisel-Tooth the Beaver (1936) illustrated by Roland V. Shutts

Wilderness Champion (1944) illustrated by Paul Bransom

Black Wings: The Unbeatable Crow (1947) illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt

(1950) illustrated by Paul Bransom

The Wahoo Bobcat

The Phantom Deer (1954) illustrated by Paul Bransom

Old Bill, the Whooping Crane (1958) illustrated with photographs

Coyote, the Wonder Wolf (1964) illustrated by Ed Dodd

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Joseph Wharton Lippincott

at Library of Congress, with 27 library catalog records