Lucius Beebe

Lucius Morris Beebe
Lucius Beebe (r), with Charles Clegg at their home office while publishing the Territorial Enterprise newspaper, Virginia City, Nevada.
Born	(1902-12-09)December 9, 1902 Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 4, 1966(1966-02-04) (aged 63) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Residence	Boston; New York City; San Francisco; Virginia City, Nevada
Education	Harvard University, B.A. 1926 Yale University
Occupation	Author, Journalist, Columnist, Photographer, Gourmand
Employer	New York Herald Tribune San Francisco Examiner Boston Telegram Boston Evening Transcript Territorial Enterprise Gourmet The New Yorker Playboy
Known for	Railroad history and documenting café society
Partner(s)	Jerome Zerbe, Charles Clegg

Lucius Morris Beebe (December 9, 1902 – February 4, 1966) was an American author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist.

Beebe was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, to a prominent Boston family. Beebe attended both Harvard University and Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record. During his tenure at boarding school and university, Beebe was known for his numerous pranks. One of his more outrageous stunts included an attempt at festooning J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair III with toilet paper from a chartered airplane. His pranks were not without consequence and he proudly noted that he had the sole distinction of having been expelled from both Harvard and Yale, at the insistence, respectively, of the president and dean of each. Beebe earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1926, only to be expelled during graduate school.

During and immediately after obtaining his degree from Harvard, Beebe published several books of poetry, but eventually found his true calling in journalism. He worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Telegram, and the Boston Evening Transcript and was a contributing writer to many magazines such as Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Holiday, American Heritage, and Playboy. Beebe re-launched Nevada's first newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952.