About Henry Halsey Noyes
Lived 1910 – 2005 (aged 94–95). Henry Halsey Noyes was an American publisher.
Henry Halsey Noyes (1910 – June 22, 2005) was an American writer, publisher, teacher, and distributor of Chinese books and magazines.
Biography Born in Guangzhou, China, he was the son of Presbyterian missionaries William D. Noyes and Mary Stevenson. His mother was cousin to American statesman Adlai Stevenson.
The family relocated to Canada in 1919. While a student at Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto, he won the Jardine Prize for Poetry in 1930. Henry earned an MFA in English literature at the University of Toronto (1936) and a Ph.D. at the University of London in the same subject in 1938).
In 1960, he founded China Books and Periodicals, Inc., in Chicago. The business later relocated to San Francisco and became America's largest distributor of printed materials from China.
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Henry Halsey Noyes was born in 1910.
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Henry Halsey Noyes died on 22 June 2005.
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