Octavus Roy Cohen (South Carolina, 1891)—short-story writer. The discoverer of the Southern negro in town life. For bibliography, see Who’s Who in America.
Will Levington Comfort (Michigan, 1878)—novelist.
Work consists mainly of romances of Oriental adventure. His book, Child and Country, 1916, is on education (cf. Book Review Digest, 1916).
Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling (Mrs. Roscoe Platt Conkling)—poet.
Born in New York City, 1878. Graduate of Smith College, 1899. Studied music and languages at the University of Heidelberg, 1902-3, and in Paris, 1903-4. Lived also in Mexico. Has taught in various schools, and since 1914 has been a teacher of English at Smith College, where she has roused much interest in poetry. Mother of Hilda Conkling ([q. v.]).
Bibliography
- Afternoons of April. 1915. (Collected poems.)
- Wilderness Songs. 1920.
Studies and Reviews
- Poetry, 7 (’15): 152.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1915, 1920.