Henry Halsey Noyes

Henry Halsey Noyes (1910 – June 22, 2005) was an American writer, publisher, teacher, and distributor of Chinese books and magazines.

Biography

Born in Guangzhou, China, he was the son of Presbyterian missionaries William D. Noyes and Mary Stevenson. His mother was cousin to American statesman Adlai Stevenson.

The family relocated to Canada in 1919. While a student at Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto, he won the Jardine Prize for Poetry in 1930. Henry earned an MFA in English literature at the University of Toronto (1936) and a Ph.D. at the University of London in the same subject in 1938).

In 1960, he founded China Books and Periodicals, Inc., in Chicago. The business later relocated to San Francisco and became America's largest distributor of printed materials from the People's Republic of China.

References

• San Francisco Chronicle. Henry Halsey Noyes—distributor of Chinese books. Retrieved January 3, 2006. (Obituary.)
• PRWeb. Henry Halsey Noyes, Founder of China Books & Periodicals, Dies at 94. Retrieved January 3, 2006. (Obituary.)
• Publisher's Weekly. China Takes Over China Books: The Longer Story. Retrieved January 3, 2006. (This article is about the sale of Noyes's business to a Chinese company.)