History of American Literature Part 49

WESTERN AUTHORS

ATHERTON, GERTRUDE FRANKLIN (1859- ), b. San Francisco, Calif. Novelist.

_The Doomswoman_, _The Aristocrats_, _The Conqueror._

BALDWIN, JAMES (1841- ), b. Westfield, Ind. Writer of excellent stories for children. _The Story of Siegfried, Old Greek Stories', Stories of the King, Discovery of the Old Northwest, The Book Lover._

BIERCE, AMBROSE (1842- ), b. Ohio. For many years a San Francisco journalist. _Can Such Things Be? In the Midst of Life_ (tales of soldiers and civilians).

BURDETTE, ROBERT JONES (1844-1914), b. Greensboro, Pa. Journalist on Burlington (Iowa) _Hawkeye_ and other papers, lecturer, humorist, clergyman. _The Rise and Fall of the Moustache_, _Hawkeyetems_, _Life of William Penn._

BURNHAM, CLARA LOUISE (1854- ) b. Newton, Ma.s.s. Moved to Chicago.

Novelist. _Dr. Latimer_, _The Wise Woman._

CARLETON, WILL (1845-1912), b. Hudson, Mich. Poet, editor, lecturer. _Farm Ballads_, _Farm Legends_, _Farm Festivals_, _City Ballads_. _Over the Hills to the Poor House,_ best known single poem.

CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL (1847-1902), b. Luray, Ohio. Writer of historical tales of Canada and the Northwest. _A Woman in Armour, The Lady of Fort St.

John, The Romance of Dollard, The White Islander, a Story of Mackinac, Lazarre._

CHENEY, JOHN VANCE (1848- ), b. Groveland, N.Y. Moved to the West. Poet and critic. _Thistle-Drift, Wood-Blooms, Queen Helen and Other Poems._ Critical Works: _That Dome in Air_ and _The Golden Guess._

DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE (1872-1906), b. Dayton, Ohio. African descent.

Journalist, poet. Wrote many fine lyrics. _Oak and Ivy_, _Lyrics of Lowly Life_, _Lyrics of the Hearthside._

DUNNE, FINLEY PETER (1867- ), b. Chicago, Ill. Humorist, journalist.

_Mr. Dooley's Philosophy._

EGGLESTON, EDWARD (1837-1902), b. Vevay, Ind. Novelist of the early life of southern Indiana. _The Hoosier Schoolmaster_, _The Hoosier Schoolboy_, _Roxy_, _The Graysons._

FOOTE, MARY HALLOCK (1847- ), b. Milton, N. Y. Her novels give vivid representations of western life. _The Led Horse Claim_, _The Chosen Valley_, _Coeur d'Alene_.

FRENCH, ALICE ("Octave Thanet") (1850- ), b. Andover, Ma.s.s. Novelist.

_Knitters in the Sun_, _Stories of a Western Town_, _A Book of True Lovers_, _The Man of the Hour_.

GARLAND, HAMLIN (1860- ), b. West Salem, Wis. Presents graphic pictures of the middle West in such stories as _Main-Traveled Roads_, _Prairie Folks_, _Rose of Dutcher's Coolly_, _Boy Life on the Prairie_.

HAY, JOHN (1838-1905), b. Salem, Ind. Private secretary to President Lincoln. Lawyer, journalist, diplomatist, and statesman. _Pike County Ballads_. Joint author with J. G. Nicolay of _Abraham Lincoln: A History_, 9 vols.

HERRICK, ROBERT (1868- ), b. Cambridge, Ma.s.s. Professor (University of Chicago), novelist. _The Web of Life_, _The Common Lot_, _The Master of the Inn_.

HOVEY, RICHARD (1864-1900), b. Normal, Ill. Poet, dramatist. _Songs from Vagabondia_, _The Marriage of Guenevere_, _Taliesin: A Masque_.

JACKSON, HELEN HUNT (1831-1885), b. Amherst, Ma.s.s. Novelist, poet. Her great western novel, _Ramona_, stands in the same relation to the Indian as _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ to the negro. Her _Century of Dishonor_ shows the wrongs done to the Indian race. _Poems_.

LONDON, JACK (1876-1916), b. San Francisco, Calif. Novelist of adventure.

_The Call of the Wild_, _The Children of the Frost_, _The Sea Wolf_, _The Game_.

LUMMIS, CHARLES F. (1859- ), b. Lynn, Ma.s.s. Traveler, librarian, writer.

_The Spanish Pioneers_, _The Man Who Married the Moon_, _The Enchanted Burn_.

MCCUTCHEON, GEO. BARR (1866- ), b. Tippecanoe Co., Ind. Novelist.

_Castle Craneycrow_, _Brewster's Millions_, _Beverly of Graustark_.

MARKHAM, EDWIN (1852- ), b. Oregon City, Oregon. Poet. _The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems_.

MILLER, CINCINNATUS HEINE (Joaquin Miller) (1841-1913), b. Wabash District, Ind. Lived in the far West, about which he writes in his poetry. _Songs of the Sierras_, _Songs of the Sunlands_, _Songs of the Desert_.

MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHAN (1869-1910), b. Spencer, Ind. Poet, dramatist. _The Masque of Judgment_, _The Fire Bringer_, _The Great Divide_ (play).

NICHOLSON, MEREDITH (1866- ), b. Crawforusville, Ind. Novelist. _The House of a Thousand Candles_, _The Port of Missing Men_, _The Hoosiers_ (in _National Studies in American Letters_).

NORRIS, FRANK (1870-1902), b. Chicago, Ill. Realistic novel writer.

_McTeague_, _The Octopus_, _The Pit_.

PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM (1867-1911), b. Madison, Ind. Novelist. _The Social Secretary_, _The Second Generation_, _The Fas.h.i.+onable Adventures of Joshua Craig_.

PIATT, JOHN JAMES (1835- ), b. James Mills, Ind. Poet. _Western Windows_, _Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley_, _Poems of Two Friends_ (with W. D. Howells).

RHODES, JAMES FORD (1848- ), b. Cleveland, Ohio. Historian. _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850_, 7 vols. The seventh volume ends with 1877.

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON (1860- ), b. South s.h.i.+elds, Eng. Painter, naturalist. _Wild Animals I Have Known, Lives of the Hunted, Natural History of the Ten Commandments, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The Biography of a Grizzly_.

SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887), b. Windsor, Conn. Professor in University of California. Transcendental poet. Some fine verse may be found in his volumes, _Hermione and Other Poems_ and _The Hermitage and Later Poems_.

SPALDING, JOHN L. (1840- ), b. Lebanon, Ky. Roman Catholic archbishop.

_Education and the Higher Life_, _Things of the Mind_, _Socialism and Labor_

TARKINGTON, NEWTON BOOTH (1869- ), b. Indianapolis, Ind. Novelist. _The Gentleman from Indiana, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Two Vanrevels, Cherry, The Conquest of Canaan._

"THANET, OCTAVE." See FRENCH, ALICE.

THOMPSON, MAURICE (1844-1901), b. Fairfield, Ind. Novelist, naturalist, poet. Best known works, _By-Ways and Bird Notes_, _My Winter Garden_, _Alice of Old Vincennes_.

WALLACE, LEW (1827-1905), b. Brookville, Ind. Lawyer, diplomat, author.

_Ben Hur_, a tale of remarkable power; _The Fair G.o.d_, _The Prince of India_.

WHITE, STEWART EDWARD (1873- ) b. Grand Rapids, Mich. Writer of vigorous stories of western mountain life. _The Blazed Trail_, _The Silent Places_, _The Claim Jumpers_, _The Riverman_.

WILc.o.x, ELLA WHEELER (1855- ), b. Johnstown Center, Wis. Journalist and poet. _Poems of Pa.s.sion_, _Poems of Pleasure_, _Poems of Power_, _Poems of Sentiment_.