Bibliography
- The Hero of Santa Maria; a Ridiculous Tragedy in One Act. 1920. (With Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, [q. v.])
- The Wonder Hat; a Harlequinade in One Act. 1920. (With Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, [q. v.])
- Erik Dorn. 1921. (Novel.)
- Also in: The Little Review. (Passim.)
Studies and Reviews
- Cur. Op. 71 (’21): 644.
- Dial, 71 (’21): 597.
- Freeman, 4 (’21): 282.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1921.
Born at Philadelphia, 1880. Educated for a short time at a Quaker school in Philadelphia and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Suggestions for Reading
1. Note Mr. Hergesheimer’s use of setting and atmosphere. What is the relative importance of these to plot and character? Is the author’s main interest in developing a story, in creating characters that live, or in suggesting particular phases of life, each with its own physical and emotional atmosphere?
2. What evidences of originality do you find in his books?
3. Is the author a realist or a romanticist? Is it true, as has been said, that he stands midway between the “unrelieved realism” of the new school of writers and the “genteel moralism” of the old?