Hubbard Cobb, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHubbard Cobb
American writer
Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1917
Date of Death: 27-Sep-2006
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Hubbard Cobb
- Hubbard Cobb (August 5, 1917 – September 27, 2006) was an American writer.
- A newspaper and radio personality, he was also the editor of The American Home and Ladies' Home Journal and the author of a number of books, including his 1950 debut Your Dream Home: How to Build It For Less Than $3500, The Amateur Builder's Handbook and 1970's The Dream House Encyclopedia.
- Cited as "an authority on home improvement and building", he was widely known in the Do it yourself publishing field, with a column running from the 1940s through the 1960s.
- He also spoke out about the unrealistic pressures on American women of the 1960s.A native of New York City, Cobb was the son of Frank I.
- Cobb and Margaret Ayer Cobb.
- Both of his parents were writers.
- His father was a well-known columnist, editor of New York World.
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