Fielding, William J. (William John), 1886-

William J. (William John) Fielding (1886-1974) was an author, editor, and sexologist. Born in New Jersey, he left school before completing the eighth grade and first worked in blast furnaces and then as a sandhog, boring tunnels under the Hudson River. In 1906, he decided to prepare for a clerical career rather than hard labor and in 1906 he enrolled in bookkeeping and accounting courses, and in 1909 was hired as secretary for Tiffany Company. By 1913 Fielding had articles published in the New York Call and began taking classes at the Rand School. He became interested in social problems and birth control and wrote a number of books and pamphlets on sexology and psychology, thirty of which were published over the years in the Little Blue Books series, including a thirteen-volume series, Rational Sex (Emmanuel Haldeman-Julius, publisher), and published articles in The New York Call, the socialist daily newspaper. He served as editor and literary editor of the Newark Leader (1915-22), as editor of Know Thyself (1913-24), and was active in Socialist Party politics in New Jersey throughout the 1920s. He also corresponded with Alfred Korzybski regarding the latters theories of general semantics and mathematical reasoning. In 1942 he was appointed secretary-treasurer for the Louis Tiffany Foundation, and in 1946, became a trustee. He retired from Tiffany in 1963, and published his autobiography All the Lives I Have Lived (Dorrance and Co., 1972).

From the description of Papers, 1912-1973. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477855760

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