The Best Short Stories of 1918 Part 63

*PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER.* Born at Rye, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1887. Educated in public schools and King's School, Stamford, Conn., Gunnery School, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C., Harvard University, and University of California.

Journalist, newspaper owner, author, Mayor of Bend, Ore., and Secretary to the Governor of Oregon. Enlisted in the army and went to the Mexican border. Has been in Department of Justice for eight months and is now in the Officers' Training Camp, Louisville, Ky. Chief interests: outdoor world, travel, politics, and people. First published story, "The Sixth Man," Ladies' Home Journal, February, 1918. Books: "The Southland of North America," 1913; "Outings in Oregon," 1915; "The Smiting of the Rock," 1917. Home: Bend, Ore.

*Sixth Man.

*RANCK, EDWIN CARTY.* Born in Lexington, Ky., 1879. Educated in private schools and Harvard. Newspaper man since 1898. On staffs of newspapers in Lexington and Covington, Ky. Dramatic editor, Cincinnati Post, 1906; St. Louis Star, 1907 and 1908; Brooklyn Eagle, 1916 to 1918. Has been in France as war correspondent. Now press representative and play reader for the Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City. First published story, "The Chosen People," Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1906. Books: "History of Covington," 1903; "Poems for Pale People," 1906; "The Night Riders," 1912; "The Doughboys' Book," 1919. Lives in New York City.

Out o' Luck.

*RHODES, HARRISON (GARFIELD).* Born at Cleveland, Ohio, June 2, 1871.

Educated at public schools, Cleveland, Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, and Harvard University. Chief interests, the war, travel, human society, and writing. First published story, "The Impertinence of Charles Edward," McClure's Magazine, January, 1903.

Books: "The Lady and the Ladder," 1906; "Charles Edward," 1907; "The Flight to Eden," 1907; "Guide Book to Florida," 1912; "In Vacation America," 1915. Lives in New York City.

*Extra Men.

*RIVERS, STUART.*

Leading Lady of the Discards.

*RUSSELL, JOHN.* Born at Davenport, Ia., April 22, 1885. Son of Charles Edward Russell, publicist. Educated in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Northwestern University. Left college to make a tour of the world. Spent some time in the South Seas. Reporter and special writer New York Herald, 1907. Special correspondent to Panama and Peru, 1908. Staff interviewer, teacher, and fiction writer, New York Herald Sunday Magazine, 1908 to 1911. Free lance magazine contributor under seven pseudonyms until 1916. On volunteer mission for U. S. Public Information, England and Ireland, 1918. First published story, "First a.s.sistant to the Subst.i.tute," Circle Magazine, July, 1907. Chief interests, fiction and travel. Married Grace Nye Bolster of Chicago; daughter, Lydia. No acknowledged books.

Adversary.

(3) *SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS. (MRS. BASIL DE SeLINCOURT).* Born at Englewood, N. J., March 28, 1873. Educated by governess at home. Left America when nine years of age, and has since lived abroad, chiefly in Paris and London. Has studied painting and exhibited at Paris. Married, 1908. Books: "The Dull Miss Archinard," 1898; "The Confounding of Camelia," 1899; "The Rescue," 1902; "Paths of Judgment," 1904; "The Shadow of Life," 1906; "A Fountain Sealed," 1907; "Amabel Channice,"

1908; "Franklin Winslow Kane," 1910; "Tante," 1911; "The Nest," 1912; "The Encounter," 1914. Lives near Oxford, England.

*Daffodils.

(1234) *SINGMASTER, ELSIE.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Release.

(234) *SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Return.

(34) *SPRINGER, FLETA CAMPBELL.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Solitaire.

(234) *STEELE, WILBUR DANIEL.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Always Summer.

*Dark Hour.

Eternal Youth.

Man's a Fool.

Perfect Face.

*Taste of the Old Boy.

*Wages of Sin.

White Man.

*STREET, JULIAN.* Born in Chicago, April 12, 1879. Educated in Chicago public schools and Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario, Can. His first writing was done when he helped to revive the school paper there.

At nineteen became a reporter on New York Mail and Express. "Became dramatic editor of that paper at twenty-one-just about the kind of dramatic editor you might expect a twenty-one-year old to be." Then in the advertising business for awhile and abroad for a year. First published story, "My Enemy-the Motor," McClure's Magazine, July, 1906.

"I was fortunate in having such friends as Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, with whom I went abroad, and who encouraged my early efforts to write. The greatest honor I have ever had in my work was an invitation from Booth Tarkington to collaborate with him upon a play, 'The Country Cousin,' which is still running. I work slowly and laboriously, and my production is small, because, though I love writing, it is very difficult for me. I dislike exercise but am fond of poker, which I play badly. My chief interests, aside from my wife and two children, are in what Mark Twain called 'the d.a.m.ned human race,' and in Havana cigars." Books: "My Enemy-the Motor," 1908; "The Need of Change,"

1909; "Paris a la Carte," 1911; "s.h.i.+p-Bored," 1911; "The Goldfish,"

1912; "Welcome to our City," 1913; "Abroad at Home," 1914; "The Most Interesting American," 1915; "American Adventures," 1917. Lives in New York City.

*Bird of Serbia.

(3) *TARKINGTON, BOOTH.* Born in Indianapolis, July 29, 1869. Educated at Exeter Academy, Purdue University, and Princeton University. Member of National Inst.i.tute of Arts and Letters. Books: "The Gentleman from Indiana," 1899; "Monsieur Beaucaire," 1900; "The Two Vanrevels," 1902; "Cherry," 1903; "In the Arena," 1905; "The Conquest of Canaan," 1905; "The Beautiful Lady," 1905; "His Own People," 1907; "The Guest of Quesnay," 1908; "Beasley's Christmas Party," 1909; "Beauty and the Jacobin," 1911; "The Flirt," 1913; "Penrod," 1914; "The Turmoil," 1915; "Penrod and Sam," 1916; "Seventeen," 1916; "The Magnificent Ambersons,"

1918. Plays: "Monsieur Beaucaire" (with E. G. Sutherland), 1901; "The Man from Home" (with Harry Leon Wilson), 1906; "Cameo Kirby," 1907; "Your Humble Servant," 1908; "Springtime," 1908; "Getting a Polish,"

1909; "The Country Cousin" (with Julian Street), 1917. Lives in Indianapolis.

*Three Zoological Wishes.

*TOLMAN, ALBERT W.* Born at Rockport, Me., Nov. 29, 1866. Brought up in Portland, Me. Educated in Portland public and high schools, graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard University. Tutor in Greek and rhetoric, Bowdoin College, 1889 to 1890. Instructor in elocution and rhetoric, 1890 to 1893. Elected a.s.sistant Professor of English, 1893, but resigned on account of poor health. Practised law, 1898 to 1913, at the same time writing adventure stories, princ.i.p.ally for the Youth's Companion. For last few years has devoted himself almost wholly to writing. First published story probably "On the Monument," Golden Days, about 1886.

Book, "Jim Spurling, Fisherman," 1918. Lives in Portland, Me.

*Five Rungs Gone.

*VENABLE, EDWARD C.*

"Ali Babette."

*At Isham's.

(34) *VORSE, MARY HEATON* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*De Vilmarte's Luck.

*Huntington's Credit.

River Road.

*WILLIAMS, BEN AMES.* Born in Macon, Miss., March 7, 1889. Brought up in Jackson, Ohio. Educated at West Newton, Ma.s.s., and Cardiff, Wales.

Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1910. Newspaper man in Jackson, Ohio, Oklahoma City, and Boston until 1916, now devotes himself entirely to fiction. "I married a Wellesley girl, who insists that she and our two boys are properly my chief interest. Fiction writing comes next; and after that tennis, golf, fis.h.i.+ng, swimming, gunning, and the general run of outdoor stuff, with chess for rainy-day wear. My first published story-my eighty-fourth in the order of writing-was 'The Wings of Lias,'

Smith's Magazine, July, 1915. Like a good many others, I owe a debt to Robert H. Davis of Munsey's for the encouragement that kept me going."

Lives in Newton Centre, Ma.s.s.

Right Whale's Flukes.

*WILSON, MARGARET.* _See_ *"Elderly Spinster."*

*WINSLOW, THYRA SAMTER.* Born in Fort Smith, Ark., 1889. Ancestors on both sides included writers. Attended public and private schools, Cincinnati Art Academy, and University of Missouri. Feature writer on the Fort Smith Southwest American and the Chicago Tribune. Experimental work included princ.i.p.als.h.i.+p of an Oklahoma school and theatrical experience from the chorus to ingenue. In 1912 married John Seymour Winslow, son of Chief Justice John Bradley Winslow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Interests: all printed matter, people, the theatre, interior decoration, and psychology. First story, "Little Emma," The Smart Set, December, 1915. Her subsequent stories are appearing mainly in the same publication. Lives in New York City.

Eva Duveen.

*WOOD, FRANCES GILCHRIST.* Born half a century ago, near the small prairie town of Carthage, Ill. Graduate of Carthage College, and has done much postgraduate work, credit due to student ancestry. In earlier years worked as reporter and editor on western newspapers, city and small town, and in railway administration with her father, a combination that carried her well over the States and Mexico. Present interests centre, by turn, in the game of writing; children, including her own; community festivals; gardening and all out of doors; as well as a pa.s.sion for pursuing the historic ghost through haunt of house and highway. First published story, "The White Battalion," The Bookman, May, 1918. Books: "The Children's Pageant," 1913; "Pageant of Ridgewood,"

1915; "Cartoons of Dress," 1917. Lives in New York City.

As Between Mothers.

*White Battalion.