MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHAN (1869-1910), b. Spencer, Ind. Poet, dramatist. The
Masque of Judgment, The Fire Bringer, The Great Divide (play).
NICHOLSON, MEREDITH (1866- ), b. Crawforusville, Ind. Novelist. The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, The Hoosiers (in National Studies in American Letters).
NORRIS, FRANK (1870-1902), b. Chicago, Ill. Realistic novel writer. McTeague, The Octopus, The Pit.
PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM (1867-1911), b. Madison, Ind. Novelist. The Social
Secretary, The Second Generation, The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua
Craig.
PIATT, JOHN JAMES (1835- ), b. James Mills, Ind. Poet. Western Windows, Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley, Poems of Two Friends (with W. D. Howells).
RHODES, JAMES FORD (1848- ), b. Cleveland, Ohio. Historian. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, 7 vols. The seventh volume ends with 1877.
SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON (1860- ), b. South Shields, Eng. Painter,
naturalist. Wild Animals I Have Known, Lives of the Hunted, Natural
History of the Ten Commandments, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The
Biography of a Grizzly.
SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887), b. Windsor, Conn. Professor in University of California. Transcendental poet. Some fine verse may be found in his volumes, Hermione and Other Poems and The Hermitage and Later Poems.
SPALDING, JOHN L. (1840- ), b. Lebanon, Ky. Roman Catholic archbishop. Education and the Higher Life, Things of the Mind, Socialism and Labor
TARKINGTON, NEWTON BOOTH (1869- ), b. Indianapolis, Ind. Novelist. The
Gentleman from Indiana, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Two Vanrevels, Cherry, The
Conquest of Canaan.