BAROJA, Pío: Author “Youth and Egolatry”; b. San Sebastian, 28 Dec. 1872. Educ.: San Sebastian schools; Institute of Pamplona; studied medicine at Valencia; graduated as M. D. from University of Madrid, 1893. Practised medicine at Cestona for two years. Went to Madrid where he ran a bakery for six years. Since then he has been writing and publishing regularly.
BEERBOHM, Max: Author “Seven Men”; b. London, 24 Aug. 1872. m. Florence Kahn, of Memphis, Tennessee. Educ.: Charterhouse; Merton Coll. Oxford. Member of Academic Committee. Since 1901 there have been six exhibitions of his drawings. Lives in Italy.
BODENHEIM, Maxwell: Author “Advice”; b. Natchez, Miss., 1892. Educ.: Memphis, Tenn. Schools. Served three years in U. S. Regular Army, and studied law and art for a time in Chicago. Wrote verse for six years before having any accepted by the magazines.
BORDEN, Mary: Author “The Romantic Woman”; b. Chicago, Ill. m. 1st., Captain Turner of the British Army; 2nd., General Edward Lewis Spiers of the British Army, March, 1918. During the war she equipped at her own expense the first mobile field hospital of the French Army, for which she was decorated with the Legion of Honor. Resides in Paris.
BRAGDON, Claude Fayette: Author “Architecture and Democracy”; b. Oberlin, O., Aug. 1, 1866. Educ.: Oswego High School; architectural apprentice in offices of Bruce Price, N. Y., and Green and Wicks, Buffalo; m. Member N. Y. Architects’ League. Lives in Rochester, N. Y.
BRIDGES, Robert: Author “October”; Poet-Laureate since 1913; b. 23 Oct. 1844, m. 3 Sept. 1884, Monica, e. d. of Alfred Waterhouse, R. A.; one s. two d. Educ.: Eton; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford (Hon. Fell.) After leaving Oxford travelled; then studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s, London; retired 1882.
BYNNER, Witter: Author “A Canticle of Pan”; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881. Educ.: Harvard (1902). One time Assistant editor McClure’s Magazine and Literary Advisor McClure, Phillips and Co.
CATHER, Willa Sibert: Author “Youth and the Bright Medusa”; b. Winchester, Va., Dec. 7, 1875. Educ.: Univ. of Nebraska, graduating, 1895. Staff of Pittsburgh Daily Leader, 1897–01; asso. editor McClure’s Magazine, 1906–12.
CHENEY, Sheldon: Author “The Art Theatre.” b. Berkeley, California, 29 June, 1886. m. Maud Meaurice Turner, of Berkeley, 1910. Three children. Educ.: University of California, A. B. 1908. In business 1908–11, teaching and writing 1911–16, editorial and critical work 1916–20. Editor Theatre Arts Magazine.
DAVIES, William Henry: Author “The Autobiography of a Supertramp”; b. 20 April 1870, Newport, Mon.; of Welsh parents. Educ.: picked up knowledge among tramps in America, on cattle boats, and in the common lodging-houses in England. Apprenticed to the picture frame making; left England when apprenticeship closed and tramped in America for six years; came back to England and lived in common lodging-houses in London, making several trips as pedlar of laces, pins and needles; sometimes varied this life by singing hymns in the street; after eight years of this published book of poems; became a poet at 34.