It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

He graduated from Yale in 1932 and married Mildred Akin a Vassar graduate in 1934. Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide (Sparkman) and Joseph Russell Lynes. Russell Lynes (Joseph Russell Lynes Jr.

Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide (Sparkman) and Joseph Russell Lynes. ) December 2 1910 – September 14 1991) was an American art historian photographer author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. He died in New York City at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.