C. J. (Clarence Joseph) Bulliet

Known for his support of modernism, C. J. Bulliet spent the majority of his long newspaper career in Chicago. Born Clarence Joseph Bulleit in Corydon, Indiana (during World War I he changed the spelling to Bulliet to avoid any connection with Germany), he studied English, astronomy, and mathematics at Indiana University. After graduating in 1905, he became a member of the Indiana University Total Eclipse Expedition to Spain in its unsuccessful search for a planet within Mercury's orbit.

Upon returning to the United Stated, Bulliet began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Louisville Herald, soon moving to the Indianapolis Star as a police reporter and eventually was named its drama critic. Between 1912 and 1921 he traveled extensively throughout the country as a press agent for Shakespearean actor Robert B. Mantell. During this period, he published his first book, a biography titled Robert Mantell's Romance. World War I interrupted Mantell's tour for two years, during which time Bulliet was press representative for D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. He returned to the Louisville Herald for two years before moving to Chicago.

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