Bellamy Partridge (July 10, 1877 – July 3, 1960) was an American writer known for his books about turn-of-the-century life in the United States.
He grew up as the son of the lawyer Samuel Seldon Partridge in Phelps, New York. After a typhoid infection forced him to abandon his law studies, he worked as a real estate salesman and in various other jobs in California, before turning to journalism. He wrote for Sunset magazine and as a newspaper war correspondent from Europe in World War I. After the war, he entered the publishing business, writing book reviews and working as an editor for the Arcadia publishing house.[1]
In his sixties, he had already published 13 books of his own, but to little success. That came with Country Lawyer (1939), a bestselling biography of his father, which Partridge said was based on his father's old case files. The New York Times described it as "an affectionate glance at a seemingly vanished world of parlors and front porches, stereopticon slides and hay-filled barns", and The Atlantic as "an unpretentious, highly anecdotal, and entertaining account of village life".[2]
Partridge's later successful books continued in Country Lawyer
Partridge died on July 3, 1960, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He left behind his wife, Helen Mary Davis Partridge, and their son and daughter.