Contemporary American Literature Part 49

Hatteras, O.A.J. Pistols for Two. 1917.

Bookm. 43 ('16): 282 (portrait only); 53 ('21): 163.

Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 95 (portrait).

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920.

+Robert Nathan+--novelist.

Author of: Peter Kindred. 1919.

Autumn. 1921.

Cf. _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1921.

+John G(neisenau) Neihardt+--poet.

Born at Sharpsburg, Illinois, 1881. Finished scientific course at Nebraska Normal College, 1897; Litt. D., University of Nebraska, 1917.

Lived among the Omaha Indians, 1901-7, studying them and their folk lore.

Has worked many years on an American epic cycle of pioneer life. Shared with Gladys Cromwell (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America, 1919.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Bundle of Myrrh. 1907.

Man-Song. 1909.

The River and I. 1910.

The Dawn-Builder. 1911.

The Stranger at the Gate. 1912.

The Death of Agrippina. 1913. (Also in _Poetry_, 2 ['13]:33.) Life's Lure. 1914.

The Song of Hugh Gla.s.s. 1915.

The Quest. 1916. (Collected lyrics.) *The Song of Three Friends. 1919.

The Splendid Wayfaring. 1920.

The Two Mothers. 1921. (Eight Hundred Rubles; Agrippina.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

House, J.T. John G. Neihardt: Man and Poet. 1920.

Bookm. 47 ('18): 395; 49 ('19): 496.

Lit. Digest, 69 ('21): May 14, p. 31 (portrait).

Poetry, 7 ('16): 264; 17 ('20): 94.

Putnam's, 4 ('08): 473, 506 (portrait).

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920.

+A(lfred) Edward Newton+--essayist.

Born at Philadelphia, 1863. Educated in private schools. Business man.

Collector of first editions of books, especially of the eighteenth century.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections. 1918.

A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. 1921.

For reviews, see _Book Review Digest_, 1921.

+Meredith Nicholson+--novelist, man of letters.

Born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1866. His reputation was founded upon the novel, _The House of a Thousand Candles_, 1905. He has published also several volumes of essays and studies, beginning with _The Hoosiers_ (National Studies in American Letters), 1900. Note among them _The Valley of Democracy_, 1918, a characterization of the Middle West. For bibliography, cf. _Who's Who In America_.

+Charles Gilman Norris+--novelist.

Brother of Frank Norris, the novelist. Married Kathleen Thompson (cf.

Kathleen Norris).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Amateur.

Salt: The Education of Griffith Adams. 1918.

Bra.s.s. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 679.

New Repub. 29 ('21): 48. (Lovett.) See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.

+Kathleen Norris+--novelist.

Born at San Francisco, 1880. Educated privately. Had experience as business woman. Married Charles Gilman Norris (q.v.), 1909.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mother. 1911.