Bibliography
- That Lass o’ Lowrie’s. 1877.
- Through One Administration. 1883.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1886. (Dramatized.)
- Editha’s Burglar. 1888.
- The One I Knew the Best of All. 1893. (Autobiographical.)
- A Lady of Quality. 1896. (Dramatized; with Stephen Townsend.)
- T. Tembaron. 1913.
- The White People. 1917.
- The Head of the House of Coombe. 1922.
Studies and Reviews
- Halsey. (Women.)
- Harkins. (Women.)
- Overton.
- Am. M. 70 (’10): 748 (portrait).
- Bookm. 20 (’04): 276 (portrait).
- Cur. Lit. 37 (’04): 321 (portrait).
- Good Housekeeping, 74 (’22): Feb., p. 27 (portrait).
- See also Book Review Digest, 1915-1917.
John Burroughs—Nature writer, essayist, poet.
Born at Roxbury, New York, 1837. Academy education with honorary higher degrees. Taught for about eight years; clerk in the Treasury, 1864-73; national bank examiner, 1873-84. From 1874 lived on a farm, after 1884 dividing his time between market gardening and literature. He died in 1921.
Mr. Burroughs’ cottage in the woods not far from West Park, New York, appropriately called “Slabsides,” has become famous and an effort is being made to keep it for the nation.
Mr. Burroughs continued to write and publish to the time of his death.
Bibliography
- Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. 1867.
- Wake Robin. 1871.
- Winter Sunshine. 1875.
- Birds and Poets. 1877.
- Locusts and Wild Honey. 1879.
- Pepacton. 1881.
- Fresh Fields. 1884.
- Signs and Seasons. 1886.
- Indoor Studies. 1889.
- Riverby. 1894.
- Whitman, a Study. 1896.
- The Light of Day. 1900.
- Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers. 1900.
- Literary Values. 1904.
- Far and Near. 1904.
- Ways of Nature. 1905.
- Bird and Bough. 1906. (Poems.)
- Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt. 1907.
- Leaf and Tendril. 1908.
- Time and Change. 1912.
- The Summit of the Years. 1913.
- The Breath of Life. 1915.
- Under the Apple Trees. 1916.
- Field and Study. 1919.
- Accepting the Universe. 1920.
- My Boyhood: An Autobiography. 1922.