Hubbard Cobb

{{Short description|American writer}}

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.{{cite news | title = Do-It-Yourselfer Cobb Dies; East Haddam man published books on home building | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1138903731.html?dids=1138903731:1138903731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+30%2C+2006&author=Courant+Staff+Report&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=DO-IT-YOURSELFER+COBB+DIES+%3B+EAST+HADDAM+MAN+PUBLISHED+BOOKS+ON+HOME+BUILDING&pqatl=google| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102130524/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1138903731.html?dids=1138903731:1138903731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+30,+2006&author=Courant+Staff+Report&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=DO-IT-YOURSELFER+COBB+DIES+%3B+EAST+HADDAM+MAN+PUBLISHED+BOOKS+ON+HOME+BUILDING&pqatl=google| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 2, 2012| work = Hartford Courant | date = Sep 30, 2006 | page = B.7}}{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zr8TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IcQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5172,6084970&dq=hubbard-cobb&hl=en | title = Building with Books | work = The Age | date = October 27, 1951 | accessdate = 2010-06-09 | author = D.L.D.}}{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v8ISAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d_cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3376,5516560&dq=hubbard-cobb&hl=en | title = Women find friend | agency = Associated Press | work = Spokane Daily Chronicle | date = June 24, 1963 | page = 6 | accessdate = 2010-06-09}}{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=33UiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QqwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1475,1229659&dq=hubbard-cobb&hl=en | title = On the House | work = The Owosso Argus-Press | date = September 11, 1970 | last= Lang | first = Andy | page = 11 | accessdate = 2010-06-09}} Cited as "an authority on home improvement and building",{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P0sqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pE8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7206,2519458&dq=hubbard-cobb&hl=en | title = Tax threat stalls home improvers | work = Pittsburgh Press | date = June 5, 1967 | page = 31 | accessdate = 2010-06-09}} he was widely known in the Do it yourself publishing field, with a column running from the 1940s through the 1960s.{{cite news | title = Hubbard Cobb, columnist | work = The Weston Forum | date = November 16, 2006 | page = AO20 | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HANP&p_multi=CWFB&p_theme=hanp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=115BC2ECCD9C830B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM}} 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.{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5shAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DZgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6109,930188&dq=hubbard-cobb&hl=en | title = New York Day by Day | last = Driscoll | first = Charles B. | date = August 4, 1944 | work = Reading Eagle | page = 4 | accessdate = 2010-06-09}} His father was a well-known columnist, editor of New York World.{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p04sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G8sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6983,1894865&dq=hubbard-cobb&hl=en | title = New York Day by Day | last = Driscoll | first = Charles B. | date = March 23, 1938 | work = Spartanburg Herald-Journal | accessdate = 2010-06-09}}