Robert Stell Lemmon


Robert Stell Lemmon, often Robert S. Lemmon in publications, was an American non-fiction writer and naturalist. He wrote and lectured on domestic dogs, gardening, wildlife, wild flowers and trees.

Career

Lemmon was the son of William and Caroline Lemmon, née McCulloh. After finishing the Englewood School for Boys he studied at Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909. He then worked for the American Trading Company. In 1911, he accompanied a zoological expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to Ecuador. Upon his return, he became co-editor of the Travel Magazine. From 1915 to 1918 he was editor and from 1918 to 1937 managing editor of the magazine House & Garden. In 1920, he married Florence G. Edwards in New York City. A daughter resulted from this marriage. During the 1930s he was treasurer of the North American Rock Garden Society and in 1938, he founded the horticultural magazine Real Gardening. From 1943 to 1951 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine The Home Garden.
Lemmon travelled extensively throughout the United States and South America, where he studied the fauna and flora. He wrote over 300 articles for various magazines and several natural history books, including some for children. Initially, Lemmons's books dealt with domestic dogs, including his first work, Training the Dog, published in 1914, and The Puppy Book about puppies and About your Dog . Lemmon was a member of the National Audubon Society, where he wrote several books for their Nature Program book series, the American Ornithologists' Union and the Yale Club of New York City.

Works