CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852), b. near Richmond, Va. Orator, statesman. Best speeches: On the War of 1812 (1813), The Seminole War (1819), The American System (1832).
COOKE, JOHN ESTEN (1830-1886), b. Winchester, Va. Colonial and military story writer. Best romance, The Virginia Comedians.
DIXON, THOMAS (1864- ), b. Shelby, N. C. Clergyman, novelist. The
Leopard's Spots, The One Woman, The Clansman.
EVANS, AUGUSTA. See WILSON, AUGUSTA EVANS.
FOX, JOHN JR. (1863- ), b. in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. Novelist of life in the Kentucky mountains. The Kentuckians, A Mountain Europa, A Cumberland Vendetta, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
GAYARRE, CHARLES E. A. (1805-1895), b. New Orleans, La. Jurist, historian. History of Louisiana.
GIBBONS, JAMES (1834- ), b. Baltimore, Md. Roman Catholic cardinal. The
Faith of Our Fathers, The Ambassador of Christ.
GLASGOW, ELLEN ANDERSON GHOLSON (1874- ), b. Richmond, Va. Novelist. The Descendant, The Voice of the People, The Deliverance.
GRADY, HENRY W. (1851-1889), b. Athens, Ga. Editor, orator. Best oration, The New South.
HEARN, LAFCADIO (1850-1904), b. in Ionian Islands of Irish and Greek parentage. Journalist, author. Lived many years in New Orleans, went thence to New York, and still later to Japan. Author of Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, Two Years in the French West Indies, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Out of the East. Shows marked descriptive ability.