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THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT

STORY

Committee: Gerald H. Carson, Chairman; Henry S. Canby, Ellis Parker Butler, Maxwell Aley, Stephen Vincent Benét.

III: Stories of Ideas (Fourth Instalment)

RUTH SUCKOW

Four Generations. 1924.

In The Best Short Stories of

Ruth Suckow is a young writer of much promise whose first novel, Country People", was published last year. She was born in Hawarden, Iowa, in 1892. As the daughter of a Congregational minister she has had much experience in Iowa community life. Miss Suckow attended Grinnell College, and later went to a dramatic school in Boston. She is now living in Earlville, Iowa, writing short stories and keeping bees. Her stories are well known to the readers of "The Century" and "The American Mercury". REFERENCE:

The Best Short Stories of 1923.

HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER The Other Story, and Other Stories. BOBBSMERRILL. 1923.

He

Henry Kitchell Webster comes from practically the literary centre of the middle west, Evanston, Illinois, where he was born in 1875 and is still living. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and was at one time an instructor of rhetoric at Union College in Schenectady, New York. was married in 1901. Mr. Webster has collaborated with Samuel Merwin, is the author of "The Real Adventure", one of the first books on "this freedom", and is well known as the narrator of "big business" tales. His stories have recently been appearing almost exclusively in "Pictorial Review".

The Descent of Man. SCRIBNER. 1904.
Madame de Treymes. SCRIBNER. 1907.
Tales of Men and Ghosts. SCRIBNER. 1910.

Edith Wharton, recognized as one of America's foremost writers, was born in New York City in 1862. At the age of 23 she married and went to Boston to live. She received the education open to girls of wealth and social position in the late nineteenth century, and in addition to this influence she had the friendship and criticism of Henry James. Mrs. Wharton has spent much time abroad as well as in New York and in New England. Her most famous short story, "Ethan Frome", falls under the heading of "Stories of Local Color", to be discussed later. Her work is familiar to readers of "Harper's", "The Century", "Scribner's”, “The Ladies' Home Journal", and "Pictorial Review". Mrs. Wharton now spends practically all of her time in France, where she was made an officer of the Legion of Honor for her work during the war.

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

Strategems and Spoils; Stories of Love and Politics'
SCRIBNER. 1901.

God's Puppets. MACMILLAN. 1916.
The Real Issue. WAY. 1896.

Completely of Kansas is William Allen White. He was born at Emporia. He was educated at the University of Kansas. He married a Kansas City woman. And since 1895 he has been proprietor and editor of the Emporia "Daily and Weekly Gazette". Mr. White was a member of the Progressive Party, an ardent follower of Roosevelt, high in his official councils. He loves dogs and animals as did Roosevelt. Like Roosevelt also, he understands the mind and manners, the whimsies and dialects, of America. He is another of those figures, including Mrs. Wharton, who add both humanity and distinction to the American literary scene, and who add wholesomeness mixed with a sense of humor to the American Credo. Mr. White was sent to France as an observer by the American Red Cross in August, 1917. He has recently written a biography of Woodrow Wilson. His short stories have appeared in "McClure's", "Scribner's", and "The Saturday Evening Post".

Mr. Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, March 7, 1889. His early years were spent in Jackson, Ohio. The home of his father, an editor of a country weekly, is reputed always to have been overflowing with books. At fifteen he was sent east to school, but he was soon removed to Cardiff, Wales, where his father became Consul. In 1906 he entered Dartmouth College. Out of college, he worked on the Boston "American" for six years as reporter. In 1912 he married the daughter of a long line of sea captains. He started to write short stories in 1910, and his eighty second story was the first to be accepted, in 1914. Mr. Williams makes his home, with his two growing boys and his wife, in Newtonville, Massachusetts. He spends his time working, fishing, and shooting. His stories appear in "Collier's", "The Saturday Evening Post", and "The Ladies' Home Journal". Several of them have been successfully filmed.

REFERENCES:

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919. The Best Short Stories of 1918.

The Men Who Make Our Novels. Charles C. Baldwin. DODD, MEAD.

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