Born at Bristol, Connecticut, 1860. A. B., Smith, 1886. Taught English at Vassar, 1890-3; at Western Reserve, 1893-6; instructor and professor of English at Smith, 1901-13.
Bibliography
- The Son of a Fiddler. 1902.
- *Uncle William. 1906.
- Happy Island. 1910.
- Mr. Achilles. 1912.
- The Taste of Apples. 1913.
- Aunt Jane. 1915.
- The Green Jacket. 1917.
- The Air-Man and the Tramp. 1918.
- The Rain-Coat Girl. 1919.
- The Chinese Coat. 1920.
- The Other Susan. 1921.
- Uncle Bijah’s Ghost. 1922.
Studies and Reviews
- Bk. Buyer, 22 (’01): 99 (portrait).
- Bookm. 36 (’12): 347 (portrait); 38 (’13): 233, 236 (portrait).
- See also Book Review Digest, 1913, 1915-8.
Edwin Lefevre (Colombia, South America, 1871)—novelist, short-story writer.
Uses Wall Street as material. For bibliography, see Who’s Who in America.
Born at Sauk Center, Minnesota, 1885. Son of a physician. A. B., Yale, 1907. During the next ten years was a newspaper man in Connecticut, Iowa, and California, a magazine editor in Washington, D. C., and editor for New York book publishers. During the last five years has been traveling in the United States, living from one day to six months in the most diverse places, and motoring from end to end of twenty-six states. While supporting himself by short stories and experimental novels, he laid the foundation for his unusually successful Main Street. His first book, Our Mr. Wrenn, is said to contain a good deal of autobiography.