The Biographical Roll of Honor of American Short Stories
January to October, 1918
Note. Only stories by American authors are listed. The best sixty stories are indicated by an asterisk before the title of the story. The index figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917 respectively. The list excludes reprints.
ABDULLAH, ACHMED. Born at Kabul, Afghanistan, May 12, 1881, of Arab and Tartar stock. Educated in India, England, France, and Germany. Bachelor of Letters, Sorbonne, Paris. Served in British-Indian and Ottoman armies. Writer of short stories, novels, and plays. Expert linguist. Chief interests, outside his profession, music, international politics, society. First story published, “The Strength of the Little Thin Thread,” Collier’s Weekly, Oct. 5, 1912. Author of “The Red Stain,” 1915; “Bucking the Tiger,” 1917; “The Blue-Eyed Manchu,” 1917; “The Last Manchu,” 1918; “The Trail of the Beast,” 1918; “The Web,” 1919. Lives in New York City.
Cobbler’s Wax.
Light.
*Simple Act of Piety.
Two-Handed Sword.
(34) ANDERSON, SHERWOOD (for biography, see 1917).
*Man of Ideas.
Senility.
(34) ANDREWS, MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN (for biography, see 1917).
Ditch.
(34) BABCOCK, EDWINA STANTON (for biography, see 1917).
*Cruelties.
*“Goddess Size.”
BEEDE, RALPH G. Born in Redfield, S. D., June 3, 1895. Educated in public schools, Rolla, N. D., and Shattuck Military School, Faribault, Minn. Three years at University of North Dakota. Managed newspapers in Winnebago, Neb., and Makoti, N. D. Has taught school and was superintendent of schools at Goodrich, N. D., for two years. Chief interests, writing and music. First story published, “Cera,” Harper’s Magazine, May, 1918.
Cera
(4) BEER, THOMAS (for biography, see 1917).
Beneficiary.
“BRANGWYN, JOHN.” First story published, “Bell-Tower of P’an-Ku.” His first book will be published soon. He lives in Washington, D. C.
*Bell-Tower of P’an-Ku.
BROWN, HEARTY EARL. Born 1886, Schoolcraft, Mich. Degrees A.B. and M.A. from University of Michigan. Member of the English Faculty, University of Kansas. First published story, “The Marrying Time,” Atlantic Monthly, October, 1918. Lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Marrying Time.
(23) BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND. Born in Alton, Ill. Educated in Washington, D. C., and at University of Michigan. Profession, writer of fiction. Chief interest, writing. First published stories: “2620 Oxford Place,” Lippincott’s Magazine, August, 1900, “The Mathematics Man,” Woman’s Home Companion, August, 1900. Books published: “Diane,” 1904; “Dawn,” 1907; “The Messenger,” 1910; “White Roses,” 1910; “Philippa at Halcyon,” 1910; “Uncertain Irene,” 1911; “The Hallowell Partnership,” 1912; “Wages of Honor,” 1917. Lives at Long Beach, Cal.
*Buster.
BROWNELL, AGNES MARY. Born at Concordia, Kans. Educated in Concordia public and high schools, supplemented by four years in a western school of music. Music teacher. Chief interests, music, an ineradicable habit of prowling around libraries, and out-of-door jaunts. First published story, “The Fifer,” Youth’s Companion, June 28, 1917. Lives at Concordia, Kans.
Sanctuary.
(14) BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS. (for biography, see 1917).
Wings of the Morning.
BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER. Born at Muscatine, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1869. One year in Muscatine high school. Bill clerk, bookkeeper, salesman, editor, and now acting Cashier of Flushing National Bank, of which he is Vice-President. Chief interest, letting himself know he is alive. First published story, “Shorty and Frank’s Adventure,” in a deceased publication whose name is forgotten. Author of “Pigs is Pigs,” 1906; “French Decorative Styles,” 1906; “The Incubator Baby,” 1906; “Mr. Perkins of Portland,” 1906; “The Great American Pie Co.,” 1907; “Confessions of a Daddy,” 1907; “Kilo,” 1907; “The Cheerful Smugglers,” 1908; “That Pup,” 1908; “The Thin Santa Claus,” 1909; “Mike Flannery on Duty and Off,” 1909; “Water Goats and Other Troubles,” 1910; “Adventures of a Suburbanite,” 1911; “The Jack Knife Man,” 1913; “Red Head and Whistle Breeches,” 1916; “Dominie Dean,” 1917; and “Philo Gubb,” 1918. Lives in Flushing, N. Y.
*Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk.
(2) BUTLER, KATHARINE. Born in Baltimore, Md., Oct 2, 1890, of New England parentage. Has lived in Salem, Mass., and the nearby inland countryside of Essex County since 1896. Education desultory. First published story, “In No Strange Land,” Atlantic Monthly, March, 1915. Lives in Danvers, Mass.
*Black Pearl.
CABELL, JAMES BRANCH. Born in Richmond, Va., April 14, 1879. Educated at McGuire’s School in Richmond, and graduated from College of William and Mary, 1898. Professions in order: school teacher, proof reader, newspaper reporter, and coal miner: at present, genealogist and writer. First published stories: “Love Letters of Falstaff,” Harper’s Monthly, March, 1902; and “As Played Before His Highness” (republished as “The Ducal Audience”), Smart Set, 1902. Author of the following volumes: (novels) “The Eagle’s Shadow,” 1904; “The Cords of Vanity,” 1909; “The Soul of Melicent,” 1913; “The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck,” 1915; “The Cream of the Jest,” 1917; (tales) “The Line of Love,” 1905; “Gallantry,” 1907; “Chivalry,” 1909; “The Certain Hour,” 1916; (essays) “Beyond Life,” 1918; (verse) “From the Hidden Way,” 1916; (genealogy) “Branchiana,” 1906; “Branch of Abingdon,” 1911; “The Majors and Their Marriages,” 1915. Lives at Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Va.
*Some Ladies and Jurgen.
(23) CANFIELD, DOROTHY (MRS. JOHN R. FISHER). Born at Lawrence, Kans., Feb. 17, 1879. Graduate of Ohio State University and Columbia University. Secretary Horace Mann School, 1902-05. Married, 1907. Has traveled widely in Europe. Now assisting Miss Winifred Holt in War Relief Work at Paris. Author of “Corneille and Racine in England,” 1904; (with G. R. Carpenter) “English Rhetoric and Composition,” 1906; “What Shall We Do Now?” 1906; “Gunhild,” 1907; “The Squirrel-Cage,” 1912; “The Montessori Mother,” 1913; “Mothers and Children,” 1914; “Hillsboro People,” 1915; “The Bent Twig,” 1915; “The Real Motive,” 1916; (with Sarah Cleghorn) “Fellow Captains,” 1916; “Understood Betsy,” 1917; “Home Fires In France,” 1918. Lives at Arlington, Vt.
Little Kansas Leaven.
On the Edge.
Pharmacienne.
CARVER, GEORGE.
In a Moment of Time.
(234) COBB, IRVIN S. (for biography, see 1917).
*Gallowsmith.
(4) CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN (for biography, see 1917).
Wild-Wing.
DICKINSON, ROY. Born at Newark, N. J., March 14, 1888. Educated at Newark Academy and Princeton University, graduating in 1909. Profession, advertising and manufacturing. Five years with Cosmopolitan Magazine. Chief interests, labor psychology and the other fellow’s viewpoint. First story published, “Playing Hookey,” Delineator, November, 1916. Now Captain in the Ordnance Department at Washington. Engaged in work for stimulating industry in ordnance plants.
Some of Our Folks, and War.
(4) DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL. (for biography, see 1917).
*Open Window.
(134) DWIGHT, H. G. (for biography, see 1917) and TAYLOR, JOHN.
*Emerald of Tamerlane.
“ELDERLY SPINSTER” (MARGARET WILSON). Born in Iowa, Jan. 16, 1882. Graduated from University of Chicago, 1904. Lived in India for the most part, 1904 to 1916. Since then she has been resting, gardening, and farming. Chief interest, the Americanization of American children through the school in which she is teaching. First published story, “Taffeta Trousers,” Atlantic Monthly, December, 1917.
God’s Little Joke.
ELLERBE, ALMA ESTABROOK, and ELLERBE, PAUL LEE. Mrs. Ellerbe was born in Greenfield, Ind., and educated at Oxford College, Ohio. Chief interests, people, writing, and automobiling. First published magazine story, “The Requital,” Harper’s Magazine, September, 1903. Author of “The Rule of Three.” Mr. Ellerbe was born in Montgomery, Ala. Had one year in which he scrupulously refrained from study at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Now Assistant Chief, Americanization section, Council of National Defense. Chief interests: English poetry, music, writing, automobiling. First published story, “The Vacant Forty,” Lippincott’s Magazine, March, 1913. Has been chief naturalization examiner for the U. S. Department of Labor at Denver. Chautauqua lecturer. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbe plan to do all their writing in collaboration, preferably in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies.
Citizen Paper.
FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD.
See CANFIELD, DOROTHY.
FREEDLEY, MARY MITCHELL. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1894. Granddaughter of S. Weir Mitchell. Previous to her marriage she was much interested in the betterment of economic conditions relating to woman’s labor, and at one time organized and managed The Philadelphia Trades School for Girls. She is the wife of an actor, Vinton Freedley, and her interests are mainly of the stage and things theatrical. She has never done any previous writing and is at present chiefly concerned with the business of “being a woman” and the wife of a soldier.
*Blind Vision.
(1234) FREEMAN, MARY E. WILKINS. (for biography, see 1917).
Jade Bracelet
(4) GEER, CORNELIA THROOP. Born in New York City, Feb. 15, 1894. Educated at Brearley School, New York. Graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, 1917. Instructor in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1918. Interested in Woman’s Land Army of America, and worked as farm hand at its Bedford Unit in summers of 1917 and 1918. First published story, “Pearls Before Swine,” Atlantic Monthly, October, 1917. Lives in New York City.
*Irish of It.
GEROULD, GORDON HALL. Born at Goffstown, N. H., Oct. 4, 1877. Graduate of Dartmouth College and Oxford University. Studied also in Paris. On Faculty of Bryn Mawr College, 1901 to 1905, and since that time successively Assistant Professor and Professor of English at Princeton University. Captain Ordnance Department, U. S. A., 1918. Married Katharine Fullerton, 1910. First story published, “Justification,” Scribner’s Magazine, October, 1911. Publications largely the result of studies in mediæval literature, folk lore, and hagiography, appearing in learned journals here and abroad. Books: “Sir Guy of Warwick,” 1905, “Selected Essays of Henry Fielding,” 1905; “The Grateful Dead,” 1908; “Saints’ Lives,” 1916; “Peter Sanders, Retired,” 1917. Lives in Princeton, N. J.
*Imagination.
(1234) GEROULD, KATHARINE FULLERTON. (for biography, see 1917).
*Marchpane.
GILBERT, GEORGE. Born in Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1874. Educated in public schools. Became newsboy, messenger, “rambler,” telegrapher, lineman, and press operator before reaching eighteen. Served as editor-in-chief of several important inland newspapers. Confidential clerk to Republican whip, J. W. Dwight, in Congressional sessions 1909-10. An editor again in Binghamton. First published story, “The Encouragement of Reuben,” Pets and Animals, July and August, 1900. Chief interests: Mrs. Gilbert, their son, flower garden, fishing, playing typewriter sonatas. Lives in Binghamton, N. Y.
Ashes of Roses.
*In Maulmain Fever-Ward.
(4) GLASPELL, SUSAN. (for biography, see 1917).
*“Beloved Husband.”
*“Poor Ed.”
GOODMAN, HENRY. Born in Roumania of Jewish parents, May 30, 1893. Came to the United States in 1900. Graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1915. Subsequently journalist on the New York Tribune and New York World. First story published, “Billy’s Mother,” Pearson’s Magazine, June, 1917. Chief interest, writing poetry and short stories. Lives in New York City.
Conquered.
(134) GORDON, ARMISTEAD C. (for biography, see 1917).
*Sinjinn, Surviving.
HALDEMAN-JULIUS, EMANUEL. See Julius, Emanuel Haldeman-.
HALL, MAY EMERY. Born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1874. Educated at high and normal schools in Providence, supplemented by special University courses. Taught for five years in Providence public schools. Chief interests, the World War, study and travel. Author of “Dutch Days,” 1914, “Roger Williams,” 1917. Writer of magazine articles. Lives at Douglaston, L. I., N. Y.
Whiteford’s Masterpiece.
(3) HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.
*Even So.
(2) HECHT, BEN. Born in New York City, Feb. 28, 1896. But left for the Middle West as soon as he learned to walk. Educated in public schools, Racine, Wis. Has always wanted to be an anthropologist. First published story, “Life,” Little Review, November, 1915. Lives in Chicago.
*Decay.
(4) HEMENWAY, HETTY. (for biography, see 1917).
*Their War.
“HENRY, ETTA.” Pseudonym of a woman student at Columbia University, who has published several excellent short stories. Lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kaddish.
HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1880. Educated at a Quaker school in Philadelphia and at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His first magazine contribution was a set of prose impressions of Atlantic City in The Forum, September, 1913. Author of “The Lay Anthony,” 1914; “Mountain Blood,” 1915; “The Three Black Pennys,” 1917; “Gold and Iron,” 1918; “Java Head,” 1919. Lives in West Chester, Pa.
Black Key.
HOUGH, EMERSON. Born at Newton, Ia., June 28, 1857. High school education at Newton, and graduated from State University of Iowa, 1880. Practised law in New Mexico in 1882. Came to Chicago in 1889 and had charge of the Western office of Forest and Stream, 1889 to 1902. Fond of amateur sport. “I have never seen a game of professional baseball and don’t intend to. I care little for the movies, and detest the comic supplements of the Sunday newspapers. I read moderately and like historical fiction of the old type. I don’t care so much for jig-time and jazz-time.” First published story, “Far from the Crowd,” Forest and Stream, about 1881. “My father was a great sportsman, a great mathematician, a great Christian. I myself have always been a sportsman, but as to mathematics and Christianity I do not say so much.” Author of “The Singing Mouse Stories,” 1895; “The Story of the Cowboy,” 1897; “The Girl at the Half-way House,” 1900; “The Mississippi Bubble,” 1902; “The Way to the West,” 1903; “The Law of the Land,” 1904; “Heart’s Desire,” 1905; “The King of Gee Whiz,” 1906; “The Story of the Outlaw,” 1906; “The Way of a Man,” 1907; “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” 1909; “The Sowing,” 1909; “The Young Alaskans,” 1910; “The Purchase Price,” 1911; “Young Alaskans on the Trail,” 1911; “John Rawn,” 1912; “The Lady and the Pirate,” 1913; “Young Alaskans in the Rockies,” 1913; “The Magnificent Adventure,” 1915; “The Man Next Door,” 1916; “The Broken Gate,” 1917; “Young Alaskans in the Far North,” 1918; “The Way Out,” 1918. President of the Society of Midland Authors. Lives in Chicago.
Clan Gordon.
(2) HUGHES, RUPERT. Born in Lancaster, Mo., Jan. 31, 1872. Educated at public schools, Lancaster, Mo., and Keokuk, Ia. Graduate of Western Reserve University, 1892, M.A. (Yale), 1899. Chief interests: literature, military work, music, and history. Married, 1908. Assistant editor Godey’s Magazine, Current Literature, and The Criterion before 1901. With Encyclopedia Britannica, 1902 to 1905. Captain U. S. A. on Mexican border service, 1916. Assistant to Adjutant-General, New York, 1917. Now Major in the U. S. A., stationed at Washington, D. C. First short story published, probably “The Man Who Could Stop His Heart,” The Adelbert, 1889. Books: “The Lake Rim Athletic Club,” 1898; “The Dozen from Lake Rim,” 1899; “American Composers,” 1900; “Gyges’ Ring,” 1901; “The Whirlwind,” 1902; “The Musical Guide,” 1903; “Love Affairs of Great Musicians,” 1903; “Songs by Thirty Americans,” 1904; “Zal,” 1905; “Colonel Crockett’s Coöperative Christmas,” 1906; “The Lake Rim Cruise,” 1910; “The Gift-Wife,” 1910; “Excuse Me,” 1911; “Miss 318,” 1911; “The Old Nest,” 1912; “The Amiable Crimes of Dirk Memling,” 1913; “The Lady Who Smoked Cigars,” 1913; “What Will People Say?” 1914; “The Music Lovers’ Cyclopedia,” 1914; “The Last Rose of Summer,” 1914; “Empty Pockets,” 1915; “Clipped Wings,” 1916; “The Thirteenth Commandment,” 1916; “In a Little Town,” 1917; “We Can’t Have Everything,” 1917; “Long Ever Ago,” 1918; “The Unpardonable Sin,” 1918; and many successful plays. Lives at Bedford Hills, N. Y.
*At the Back of God Speed.
HUMPHREY, GEORGE. Born at Boughton, Eng., July 17, 1889. Educated at Faversham School, England; Oxford and Leipsig Universities. Professor of ancient history at Saint Francis Xavier’s University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Now at Harvard University.
*Father’s Hand.
(234) HURST, FANNIE. (for biography, see 1917).
*Hers Not to Reason Why.
(2) JOHNSON, ARTHUR. Born in Boston, 1881. Graduate of Harvard University. Practised law since 1905. Chief interests: his profession, poetry, human nature, literature, art. Cares more for poetry than anything else. First story published, “Frankie and Jenny,” American Magazine, December, 1913. Now engaged in war work at Washington. Home, Cambridge, Mass.
His New Mortal Coil.
*Little Family.
*Visit of the Master.
(4) JONES, (E.) CLEMENT. (for biography, see 1917).
Mongrel.
JULIUS, EMANUEL HALDEMAN-. Born in Philadelphia, July 30, 1888. Self educated. “I left home as a kid and meandered around doing odd jobs—from being a bell boy in a school for polite young ladies to holding copy in a newspaper proof room. At twenty I became a reporter in New York. Later I did newspaper work in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles. I have edited and contributed to many labor and radical periodicals. I am managing editor of The New Appeal, which is the largest Socialist paper in the world. I am also director of a thoroughly capitalistic bank. Married in 1916. My chief interest right now is in getting the baby weaned.” Books: “The Color of Life,” 1916; “Somewhere in Europe,” 1917; “The Pest,” 1916. Lives in Girard, Kans.
Ring.
(3) KING, BASIL. Born in Charlottetown, P. E. I., Canada, Feb. 26, 1859. Educated at St. Peter’s School, Charlottetown, and King’s College, Windsor, N. S. Married, 1893. First story published, “The Eleventh Hour,” Atlantic Monthly, February, 1901. Books: “Griselda,” 1901; “Let Not Man Put Asunder,” 1902; “In the Garden of Charity,” 1903; “Steps of Honor,” 1905; “The Giant’s Strength,” 1906; “The Inner Shrine,” 1909; “The Wild Olive,” 1910; “The Street Called Straight,” 1912; “The Way Home,” 1913; “The Letter of the Contract,” 1914; “The Side of the Angels,” 1915; “The Lifted Veil,” 1917; “The High Heart,” 1917; “Abraham’s Bosom,” 1918. Lives in Boston.
Going West.
(4) KLINE, BURTON (for biography, see 1917).
*In the Open Code.
Singular Smile.
(4) KRYSTO, CHRISTINA (for biography, see 1917).
Mother of Stasya.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Born at Sauk Centre, Minn., Feb. 7, 1885. Educated at local schools, and graduate of Yale University. Newspaper reporter, assistant editor of Adventure and of Transatlantic Tales, editor of the Publishers’ Newspaper Syndicate, editor for George H. Doran Company and Frederick A. Stokes Company. First published story appeared in Pacific Monthly about 1905. Books: “Our Mr. Wrenn,” 1914; “The Trail of the Hawk,” 1915; “Job,” 1917; “The Innocents,” 1917. Lives at Port Washington, L. I., N. Y.
*Willow Walk.
LIEBERMAN, ELIAS. Born in Petrograd, Russia, Oct. 30, 1883. His parents emigrated with him to New York in 1891. Graduate of the College of the City of New York and New York University. Head of the English Department, Bushwick High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. Aside from life itself, magazine and newspaper work has always been his chief interest. First published story, “The Open Door,” Lippincott’s Magazine, September, 1913. Books: “The American Short Story,” 1912; “Paved Streets,” 1918. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Tower of Confusion.
(3) MARKS, JEANNETTE. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1875. Educated in Philadelphia, Dresden, and Wellesley College. Has travelled much in England and Wales. Fond of outdoor sports. Lecturer in English literature at Mt. Holyoke College. Member of the Committee on Habit Forming Drugs, American Public Health Association. First story published, “Mors Triumphans,” Outlook, May 20, 1905. Books: “The Cheerful Cricket,” 1907; “The English Pastoral Drama,” 1908; “Through Welsh Doorways,” 1909; “The End of a Song,” 1911; “A Girl’s School Days and After,” 1911; “Gallant Little Wales,” 1912; “Vacation Camping for Girls,” 1913; “Leviathan,” 1913; “Early English Hero Tales,” 1915; “Three Welsh Plays,” 1917. Winner of the Welsh National Theatre Prize, 1911. Lives at South Hadley, Mass.
*Haymakers.
*Old Lady Hudson.
(1) MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR. Born in New York City, Feb. 7, 1876. Graduated from Yale University, 1898. Books: “A Bunch of Grapes,” 1897; “Tom Beauling,” 1901; “Aladdin O’Brien,” 1902; “The Pagan’s Progress,” 1904; “Ellen and Mr. Man,” 1904; “The Footprint,” 1908; “Putting on the Screws,” 1909; “Spread Eagle,” 1910; “The Voice in the Rice,” 1910; “It,” 1912; “If You Touch Them They Vanish,” 1913; “The Penalty,” 1915; “When My Ship Comes In,” 1915; “The Goddess,” 1915; “The Seven Darlings,” 1915; “We Three,” 1916. Lives in New York City.
Unsent Letter.
MORTEN, MARJORY. Born in New York City. Educated in boarding schools, studied art in Paris and New York. Married Alexander Morten, 1909. First story published, “Sophy So-and-So,” Harper’s Magazine, August, 1915. Lives in New York City.
*Nettle and Foxglove.
MOSELEY, KATHARINE PRESCOTT. Born in Newburyport, Mass. Niece of Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Privately educated in Washington, D. C. Her father, a secretary of the I. C. Commission, spent over twenty years in his well-known work for the amelioration of railroad employees. His life was written by James Morgan. Miss Moseley’s life has been spent between Newburyport, Washington, and Boston, with trips abroad. Her chief interests are in music and gardening. Her home is at Deer Island, Newburyport, Mass.
*Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie.
(23) MYERS, WALTER L. Born in Lawrence, Kans., 1886, and reared in Iowa. Educated in Iowa public schools, State University of Iowa and Harvard University. In civil life Assistant Professor of English, University of Iowa. Now Second Lieutenant, Machine-Gun Training Centre, Camp Hancock, Ga. Chief interest, literature. First published story, “At the Crossing of the Trails,” Outing, 1909.
*Clouds.
(4) O’HIGGINS, HARVEY J. (for biography, see 1917).
*Owen Carey.
OPPENHEIM, JAMES. Born at St. Paul, Minn., May 24, 1882. Educated at Columbia University. Engaged in Social Settlement Work in New York, 1901 to 1903. Married, 1905. Teacher and Acting Superintendent, Hebrew Technical School for Girls, New York, 1905 to 1907. Editor, the Seven Arts Magazine, 1916-17. First story published in a school paper at age of thirteen. Books: “Doctor Rast,” 1909; “Monday Morning,” 1909; “Wild Oats,” 1910; “The Pioneers,” 1910; “Pay-Envelopes,” 1911; “The Nine-Tenths,” 1911; “The Olympian,” 1912; “Idle Wives,” 1914; “Songs for the New Age,” 1914; “The Beloved,” 1915; “War and Laughter,” 1916; “The Book of Self,” 1917; “Night,” 1918. Chief interests: running a Ford in the Litchfield Hills, taking care of chickens and gas engines, analytic psychology, talking with a friend, and writing poetry. Lives in New York City.
* Second-Rater.
(34) O’SULLIVAN, VINCENT. (for biography, see 1917).
Exhibit C-470.
PATTERSON, ELIZABETH. Born in Old Fort Seward, Jamestown, Dakota Territory, and spent her childhood in the picturesque life of isolated army posts. Daughter of Brigadier-General John S. Patterson, U. S. A. Educated at Cooperstown, N. Y., High School. Chief interests, traveling and out-of-door things. Expects to spend the coming winter in France in Red Cross service. First story published, “Sir Galahad,” All-Story Weekly, May 18, 1918. Lives in Cooperstown, N. Y.
Sir Galahad.
PATTERSON, NORMA. Born at Jasper, Texas, July 6, 1891. Educated at Beaumont High School and University of Nashville. Chief interest at present, turning out khaki-colored sweaters. Is an earnest student of places, words, people, and national issues. First published story, “The Roll of Honor,” Holland’s Magazine, 1915. Lives in San Antonio, Tex.
*Unto Each His Crown.
PAYNE, WILL. Born on a farm in Whiteside County, Ill., Jan. 9, 1855. Public-school education. Chief interests: writing and three grandchildren. “My first magazine story was published in the Century about 1891, but while I have a clear recollection of the indignation of the gentleman who unconsciously sat as a model for the leading character, I can’t, to save me, recover the title.” Member of National Institute of Arts and Letters. Engaged in journalism, 1890 to 1904. Books: “Jerry the Dreamer,” 1896; “The Money Captain,” 1898; “The Story of Eva,” 1901; “On Fortune’s Road,” 1902; “Mr. Salt,” 1903; “When Love Speaks,” 1906; “The Automatic Capitalist,” 1909; “The Losing-Game,” 1909. Lives in Paw Paw, Mich.
*His Escape.
PELLEY, WILLIAM DUDLEY. An accomplished writer of Vermont stories, proprietor of the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, and editorial free lance. Is now traveling in Siberia. Lives at Bennington, Vt.
*Toast to Forty-Five.
(4) PERRY, LAWRENCE. (for biography, see 1917).
*Poet.
PRATT, LUCY. Born at Deerfield, Mass., July 29, 1874. Educated at Deerfield Academy, private school at Nyack, N. Y., Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Teacher at Hampton Institute, 1897 to 1904. First story published, “The Entrance of Ezekiel.” Books: “Ezekiel,” 1909; “Ezekiel Expands,” 1914; “Felix Tells It,” 1915. Chief interests: human beings, music, literature, and changing seasons. Lives at Cambridge, Mass.
*Green Umbrellas.
(4) PULVER, MARY BRECHT. (for biography, see 1917).
*David and Jonathan.
PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER. Born at Rye, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1887. Educated in public schools and King’s School, Stamford, Conn., Gunnery School, Washington, 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 Assistant to the Substitute,” 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 SÉLINCOURT). 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 damned human race,’ and in Havana cigars.” Books: “My Enemy—the Motor,” 1908; “The Need of Change,” 1909; “Paris à la Carte,” 1911; “Ship-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 Institute 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 Zoölogical 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 Assistant Professor of English, 1893, but resigned on account of poor health. Practised law, 1898 to 1913, at the same time writing adventure stories, principally 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, Mass., 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, fishing, 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, Mass.
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 principalship of an Oklahoma school and theatrical experience from the chorus to ingénue. 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 passion 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.
WOOD, JOHN SEYMOUR. Born at Utica, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1853. Graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School. Married, 1880. Has practised law in New York City since 1876. Books: “Gramercy Park,” 1892; “A Daughter of Venice,” 1892; “College Days,” 1895; “A Coign of Vantage,” 1896; “Yale Yarns,” 1897. Editor of Bachelor of Arts, 1896 to 1898. Lives in New York City.
*In the House of Morphy.