Jacques Georges Clemenceau Le Clercq (1898–1972)

Biography: Paul Tanaquil (1898-1972)

Paul Tanaquil was the pseudonym of Jacques Georges Clemenceau Le Clercq, who was born in Austria as the godson of Premiere Clemenceau of France. Le Clercq, who became an American citizen, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1921. During World War II, he served in the Office of War Information. He worked as a journalist in San Francisco, taught at Columbia University and City College, and served on the editorial board of Brentano's.

His book Attitudes won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and was published by Yale University Press in 1922. He continued to write poetry under the name Paul Tanaquil, while under the name Le Clercq he translated work by Balzac, La Fontaine, Sforza, and Giono.