Robert Cortes Holliday (“Murray Hill”)—essayist, critic.

Born at Indianapolis, 1880. Studied at the Art Students’ League, New York, 1899-1902, and at the University of; Kansas, 1903-4. Illustrator for magazines, 1904-5. Bookseller with Scribner’s, 1906-11. Librarian, 1912-3. Held various editorial positions with New York publishers, 1913-8. Associate editor of The Bookman, 1918, and editor, 1919—.

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William Dean Howells—novelist, dramatist, critic, poet.

Born at Martins Ferry, Ohio, 1837. Of Welsh, English, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Irish ancestry. His father was a country editor, and Mr. Howells, living as he did under pioneer conditions, had very little formal education, but educated himself in working on newspapers as printer, correspondent, and editor. He read continually in boyhood, and taught himself to read six languages. As the result of a campaign life of Lincoln, he was appointed U. S. consul at Venice and lived there, 1861-5. After a year on the staff of the Nation, he became assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1866-72, and editor, 1872-81. Later, he became an editorial writer for Harper’s Magazine, 1886-91, and finally writer of the “Editor’s Easy Chair,” for the same magazine.