illiams+--poet.
Born in 1883. Physician. Lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, where his first
book was privately printed. Co-editor of _Contract_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems. 1909.
The Tempers. 1913.
A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere. 1917.
Kora in Hell: Improvisations. 1920.
Sour Grapes. 1921.
Also in: Des Imagistes. 1914.
Dial. (_Passim._)
Egoist. (_Passim._)
Little Review. (_Passim._)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Dial, 70 ('21): 352, 565; 72 ('22): 197.
Poetry, 17 ('21): 329.
+Harry Leon Wilson+ (Illinois, 1867)--novelist, dramatist.
His best-known novel is _Ruggles of Red Gap_, 1915. Collaborated with
Booth Tarkington (q.v.) in the plays, _The Man from Home_, 1908, and
_Bunker Bean_, 1912. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.
+Owen Wister+--novelist.
Born at Philadelphia, 1860. A.B., Harvard, 1882; A.M., LL.B., 1888;
honorary LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1907. Admitted to the
Philadelphia bar, 1889. In literary work since 1891.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Dragon of Wantley--His Tail. 1892.
Red Men and White. 1896.
Lin McLean. 1898. (Short stories.)
The Jimmy John Boss. 1900.
*The Virginian. 1902.
Philosophy 4. 1903.
A Journey in Search of Christmas. 1904.
*Lady Baltimore. 1906.
The Seven Ages of Washington. 1907. (Biography.)
Members of the Family. 1911. (Short stories.)
The Pentecost of Calamity. 1915. (Germany in 1914.)
The Straight Deal; or The Ancient Grudge. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cooper.
Bk. Buyer, 25 ('02): 199.
Bookm. 27 ('08): 458, 465 (portrait).
Critic, 41 ('02): 358.
Cur. Lit. 33 ('02): 127 (portrait), 238.
Dial, 59 ('15): 303.
Ind. 60 ('06): 1159 (portrait).
Lond. Times, July 4, 1902: 196.
World's Work, 5 ('02): 2792, 2795 (portrait); 6 ('03): 3694.
+Charles Erskine Scott Wood+--poet.
Born at Erie, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy,
1874; Ph.B., LL.B., Columbia, 1883. Served in the U.S. Army, 1874-84, in
various campaigns against the Indians. Admitted to the bar, 1884, in
Portland, Oregon, and practiced until he retired, 1919. Painting, as well
as writing, an avocation.
His knowledge of the Indians and of the desert appears in his principal
work, a long poem in the manner of Whitman, _The Poet in the Desert_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Book of Tales, Being Myths of the North American Indians. 1901.
A Masque of
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