Adventure, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City.
Ainslee's Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City.
All-Story Weekly, 280 Broadway, New York City.
American Boy, 142 Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan.
American Magazine, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Argosy, 280 Broadway, New York City.
Atlantic Monthly, 41 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.
Black Cat, Salem, Mass.
Catholic World, 120 West 60th Street, New York City.
Century, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Christian Herald, Bible House, New York City.
Collier's Weekly, 416 West 13th Street, New York City.
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City.
Delineator, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City.
Everybody's Magazine, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City.
Good Housekeeping, 119 West 40th Street, New York City.
Harper's Bazaar, 119 West 40th Street, New York City.
Harper's Magazine, Franklin Square, New York City.
Hearst's Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City.
Ladies' Home Journal, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
Liberator, 34 Union Square, East, New York City.
Little Review, 24 West 16th Street, New York City.
Live Stories, 35 West 39th Street, New York City.
McCall's Magazine, 236 West 37th Street, New York City.
McClure's Magazine, 76 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Magnificat, Manchester, N. H.
Metropolitan, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Midland, Moorhead, Minn.
Munsey's Magazine, 280 Broadway, New York City.
Outlook, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Pagan, 7 East 15th Street, New York City.
Parisienne, 25 West 45th Street, New York City.
Pictorial Review, 216 West 39th Street, New York City.
Queen's Work, 3200 Russell Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
Red Book Magazine, North American Building, Chicago, Ill.
Reedy's Mirror, Syndicate Trust Building, St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday Evening Post, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
Scribner's Magazine, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Short Stories, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y.
Smart Set, 25 West 45th Street, New York City.
Snappy Stories, 35 West 39th Street, New York City.
Stratford Journal, 32 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass.
Sunset, 460 Fourth Street, San Francisco, Cal.
Today's Housewife, Cooperstown, N. Y.
Touchstone, 1 West 47th Street, New York City.
Woman's Home Companion, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Woman's World, 107 South Clinton Street, Chicago, Ill.
THE BIOGRAPHICAL ROLL OF HONOR OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
NOVEMBER, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919
Note. Only stories by American authors are listed. The best sixty stories are indicated by an asterisk before the title of the story. The index figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918 respectively. The list excludes reprints.
(5) Abdullah, Achmed (for biography, see 1918).
Dance on the Hill.
*Honorable Gentleman.
Alsop, Gulielma Fell. Born in Allegheny, Pa., graduated from
Barnard College and from the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania, spent a year in special work at Vienna, and
became attached to St. Elizabeth's Mission Hospital for Chinese
women and children at Shanghai, China, where she eventually
became physician-in-charge. She has travelled widely in
Europe and Africa and her first volume will be published
shortly.
*Kitchen Gods.
(345) Anderson, Sherwood (for biography, see 1917).
*Awakening.
(345) Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (for biography, see
1917).
Queen.
(345) Babcock, Edwina Stanton (for biography, see 1917).
*Facing It.
*Willum's Vanilla.
Barnes, Djuna. Born at Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., in 1892.
Educated at home. Chief interests: drawing and writing.
Author of "Book of Repulsive Women," 1915, and "Passion
Play," 1918. Lives in New York City.
*Night among the Horses.
Valet.
Bartlett, Frederick Orin. Born at Haverhill, Mass., in 1876,
educated at Proctor Academy, Hanover, N. H., and Harvard
University. Spent six years in newspaper work on Boston
papers. Author of "Mistress Dorothy," 1901; "Joan of the
Alley," 1905; "Web of the Golden Spider," 1909; "Seventh
Noon," 1910; "Prodigal Pro Tem," 1911; "Forest Castaways,"
1911; "Lady of the Lane," 1912; "Guardian," 1912; "Whippen,"
1913; "Wall Street Girl," 1916; "Triflers," 1917, and many
short stories. Lives in Cambridge, Mass.
*Long, Long Ago.
(234) Brown, Alice (for biography, see 1917).
Praying Sally.
(5) Brownell, Agnes Mary (for biography, see 1918).
*Dishes.
*Love's Labor.
(3) Burnet, Dana. Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1888, and educated
at Woodward High School, Cincinnati, and Cornell University.
Connected with the New York Evening Sun since
1911. Author of "Poems," 1915; "Shining Adventure," 1916,
and many short stories. Lives in New York City.
Butterfly.
Orchid.
(145) Burt, Maxwell Struthers (for biography, see 1917).
* Blood-Red One.
Shining Armor.
(5) Cabell, James Branch (for biography, see 1918).
* Wedding Jest.
Caylor, N. G.
* Area of a Cylinder.
Cohen, Octavus Roy. Born at Charleston, S. C., in 1891. Educated
at Porter Military Academy and Clemson College. Married
Inez Lopez, 1914. Civil engineer 1909 and 1910; newspaper
man 1910-12; practised law 1913 to 1915, since which he has
devoted himself exclusively to writing. Author of "The Other
Woman," 1917 (with J. V. Glesy); "Six Seconds of Darkness,"
1918; "Polished Ebony," 1919. Lives in Birmingham, Ala.
Queer House.
Collier, Tarleton.
Gracious Veil.
(2) Comfort, Will Levington. Born at Kalamazoo, Mich.,
1878. Educated in the Detroit public schools, served in Fifth
U.S. Cavalry during the Spanish-American War, and as war
correspondent in the Philippines, China, Russia and Japan, 1899
to 1904. Author of "Routledge Rides Alone," 1910; "Fate
Knocks at the Door," 1912; "Down Among Men," 1913; "Midstream,"
1914; "Red Fleece," 1915; "Lot and Company," 1915;
"Child and Country," 1916; "The Hive," 1918. Lives in Santa
Monica, Cal.
Skag.
(24) Cowdery, Alice (for biography, see 1917).
Spiral.
Cram, Mildred. Born in Washington, D. C, 1889. After four
years of study in New York private schools, went abroad for
six years of travel. Chief interests: music, the theater, house-keeping,
and short stories. First short story: "A Stab at Happiness,"
published in All-Story Weekly, 1915. Author of "Old
Seaport Towns of the South," 1917, and "Lotus Salad," 1920.
Lives in New York City.
McCarthy.
Cranston, Claudia.
*Invisible Garden.
(45) Dobie, Charles Caldwell (for biography, see 1917).
Called to Service.
(3) Dreiser, Theodore. Born at Terre Haute, Ind., 1871.
Educated in the public schools of Warsaw, Ind., and Indiana University,
and married in 1898. Engaged in newspaper work in
Chicago and St. Louis, 1892-4; editor of Every Month. 1895-8;
special editorial work, 1898-1905; editor of Smith's Magazine,
1905-6; Broadway Magazine, 1906-7; Butterick publications,
1907-10. Organized National Child's Rescue campaign, 1907.
Author of "Sister Carrie," 1900; "Jennie Gerhardt," 1911;
"Financier," 1912; "Traveller at Forty," 1913; "Titan," 1914;
"Junius," 1915; "Plays of the Natural and Supernatural,"
1916; "Hoosier Holiday," 1916; "Free," 1918; "Twelve Men,"
1919; "Hand of the Potter," 1919; "Hey-Rub-a-Dub," 1920;
"Bulwark," 1920. Lives in New York City.
*Old Neighborhood.
(5) "Elderly Spinster" (Margaret Wilson) (for biography, see 1918).
Mother.
Fish, Horace. Born in New York City, 1885. His first story,
"Fuego," was published in Harper's Magazine in 1912. He
lives in New York City.
*Wrists on the Door.
(45) Geer, Cornelia Throop (for biography, see 1918).
Study in Light and Shade.
Gillmore, Inez Haynes. See Irwin, Inez Haynes.
Giovannitti, Arturo.
*Eighth Day.
(45) Glaspell, Susan. (for biography, see 1917).
*Busy Duck.
*"Government Goat."
*Pollen.
(5) Goodman, Henry (for biography, see 1918).
*Stone.
(5) Hall, May Emery (for biography, see 1918).
Lamp of Remembrance.
(34) Hallet, Richard Matthews (for biography, see 1917).
*Anchor.
*To the Bitter End.
Harrison, Don.
*Mixing.
Harrison, Grover.
Greatest Gift.
(25) Hecht, Ben (for biography, see 1918).
Dog Eat Dog.
Yellow Goat.
(5) Hergesheimer, Joseph (for biography, see 1918).
*Meeker Ritual.
(2345) Hurst, Fannie (for biography, see 1917).
*Humoresque.
Imrie, Walter McLaren. A young Canadian writer, who served
in the Canadian Hospital Service during the war. Lives in
Toronto, Ont.
Daybreak.
Ingersoll, Will E. Born at High Bluff, Manitoba, in 1880. Two
months later his father continued his journey west to Shoal
Lake, Manitoba, where he took up a homestead. Received his
education partly at the village school, partly from the Anglican
clergyman who was a friend of his father, but mostly from a
trunk full of books which his father and mother had brought
from the East. Came to Winnipeg in his early twenties with
one hundred and fifty dollars; hired a garret and wrote hard
while the money lasted; placed his first story with Everybody's
Magazine, August, 1905, and has been in journalism since. He
is now on the Winnipeg Free Press. Author of "Road that
Led Home," 1918. Lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
*Centenarian.
(3) Irwin, Inez Haynes (Inez Haynes Gillmore). Born at
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1873. Educated in the Girls' High
School and Normal School, Boston, and Radcliffe College.
Married to Will Irwin. Author of "June Jeopardy," 1908;
"Maida's Little Shop," 1910; "Phœbe and Ernest," 1910;
"Janey," 1911; "Phœbe, Ernest and Cupid," 1912; "Angel
Island," 1913; "Ollivant Orphans," 1915; "Lady of Kingdoms,"
1917. Lives in Scituate, Mass.
Treasure.
Irwin, Wallace. Born at Oneida, N. Y., 1876. Educated at
Denver High School and Leland Stanford University. Engaged
in newspaper work in San Francisco, 1901; editor of
Overland Monthly, 1902; on the staff of Collier's Weekly,
1906-7; member of Committee on Public Information, 1917-19.
Author of "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum," 1902; "Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam, Jr.," 1902; "Fairy Tales up to Now," 1904;
"Nautical Lays of a Landsman," 1904; "At the Sign of the
Dollar," 1904; "Chinatown Ballads," 1905; "Random Rhymes
and Odd Numbers," 1906; "Letters of a Japanese School Boy,"
1909; "Mr. Togo, Maid of All Work," 1913; "Pilgrims into
Folly," 1917. Lives in New York City.
*Wandering Stars.
(25) Johnston, Arthur (for biography, see 1918).
*Riders in the Dark.
(12) Johnston, Calvin. Born at Springfield, Mo., October 6,
1876. Educated in the common schools. Short story writer.
Chief interests: Establishing National Commercial Airways;
writing posthumous novel. Author of "The Pariah," published
in Harper's Weekly, December 9, 1905; "Veteran's Last Campaign,"
Harper's Monthly, June, 1906.
*Messengers.
Jones, Howard Mumford.
*Mrs. Drainger's Veil.
(45) Kline, Burton (for biography, see 1917).
Living Ghost.
La Motte, Ellen N.
*Under a Wine-Glass.
(5) Lieberman, Elias (for biography, see 1918).
*Thing of Beauty.
(4) London, Jack (for biography, see 1917).
On the Makaloa Mat.
Macmanus, Seumas.
Far Adventures of Billy Burns.
Tinker of Tamlacht.
Maxwell, Helena. Born November 22, 1896, in Iowa City,
Iowa. Her father was Scotch, and was a surgeon in the regular
army at the time of the Spanish-American War. Lived
most of her life in Iowa. Attended school in Washington,
D. C. Lived much in the South. Now a Senior at the University
of Idaho, at Moscow, Idaho, where her husband, Baker
Brownell, is an assistant professor of journalism. Chief interests,
aside from writing, are Bach, the New Republic, woman
suffrage, and climbing mountains. First story was written at
the age of nine, offered to The Youth's Companion for $100.
It was not accepted. First published story was in The Pagan,
September, 1919, "West of Topeka."
(2) Mitchell, Mary Esther. Born in New York City, 1863.
Educated at the public schools of Bath, Me., and Radcliffe College.
First short story published in the Youth's Companion,
1892 or 1893. Lives in Arlington, Mass.
Jonas and the Tide.
(3) Montague, Margaret Prescott. Born at White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., in 1878, and educated at home and in private
schools. Author of "The Poet, Miss Kate and I," 1905; "Sowing
of Alderson Cree," 1907; "In Calvert's Valley," 1908;
"Linda," 1912; "Closed Doors," 1915. Lives in White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va.
*England to America.
Moravsky, Maria. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 31, 1890.
Received her primary school education in Poland and University
education in Russia. Came to America in 1917. First
short story published in English, "Friendship of Men," Harper's
Magazine, Feb., 1919. Chief interests, poetry, travelling, psychology,
and the welfare of humanity. Published several books
in Russian between 1914 and 1917, including "By the Harbor,"
"Cinderella Thinks," "Orange Peels," and "Flowers in the
Cellar." Used to write stories for the leading Russian magazines.
"I think America taught me how to write better fiction,
for the art of short story writing is more highly developed here.
At first I wrote in Polish, then in Russian. I changed to English
because yours is the richest language in the world. I try
reverently to learn it well." Lives in New York City.
Friendship of Men.
Murray, Roy Irving.
*First Commandment with Promise.
Muth, Edna Tucker.
White Wake.
Nicholl, Louise Townsend. Born in Scotch Plains, N. J., in
1890, graduated from Smith College and has been on the staff
of the New York Evening Post since 1913. Her chief interest
is poetry, and she is now Associate Editor of Contemporary
Verse. She is the author of a critical volume on John Masefield,
to be published this season. Lives in New York City.
Her first short story, "The Little Light," was published in the
Stratford Journal in February, 1919.
Little Light.
(4) Norton, Roy (for biography, see 1917).
This Hero Thing.
Page, Helen. Born in Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1892. Graduated
from the Misses Brown School, Providence, R. I., and Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. Has been an errand girl in a department
store, sold coats and suits, clerked in a book section,
written advertising copy for woman's wear, written free lance
articles, done publicity work, and is now conducting a tea
room in Greenwich Village, New York City. "Rebound" is
her first published story.
*Rebound.
(5) Patterson, Norma (for biography, see 1918).
What They Brought Out of France.
(5) Payne, Will (for biography, see 1918).
Best-Laid Plan.
(2) Pickthall, Marjorie L.
Third Generation.
(5) Pratt, Lucy (for biography, see 1918).
*Man Who Looked Back.
Ravenel, Beatrice. Born in Charleston, South Carolina. Educated
at private school and Radcliffe, specializing in English.
Chief interest: her daughter of fifteen, and books. First short
story published in the Harvard Advocate, 1891. Lives in
Charleston, South Carolina.
High Cost of Conscience.
Rendel, Lawrence.
Mother.
(35) Sedgwick, Anne Douglas (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)
(for biography, see 1918).
*Autumn Crocuses.
*Evening Primroses.
Seiffert, Marjorie Allen. Born in Moline, Ill. Studied music
for seven years and composed many songs, married and has two
children. Began writing poetry in 1915, and short stories in
1918. First story published, "The Neighbor," Reedy's Mirror,
Oct. 25, 1918. Graduate of Smith College. Author of "A
Woman of Thirty," 1919. Lives in Moline, Ill.
Peddler.
Sidney, Rose.
Grapes of the San Jacinto.
(12345) Singmaster, Elsie (for biography, see 1917).
Recompense.
Solon, Israel. Was born in the government of Grodno, Russia,
in 1875 or 1876. Came to Chicago in 1889. "My interest in
writing goes back to my earliest memories of myself. I can
still see myself as a little boy of three or four, sitting of Sabbath
evenings, rubbing my eyes with my fists while my father
recites wondrous tales of men and beasts in lands and times
far removed from our own. I began reading for myself about
the age of six or seven, and have kept at it ever since." Education
acquired at odd times and places, after working hours
and between working periods; took English courses at Lewis
Institute, Chicago. Has been both an amateur and a professional
labor agitator. All his interests concern themselves with
social and intellectual problems. First story, "The Glorious
Surrender," published in The Bulletin of the International
Glove Workers' Union, April and May, 1912. Now lives in
New York City.
*"Boulevard."
(2345) Steele, Wilbur Daniel (for biography, see 1917).
*Accomplice After the Fact.
*"For They Know Not What They Do."
*For Where Is Your Fortune Now?
*Goodfellow.
*Heart of a Woman.
*"La Guiablesse."
*Luck.
Sutherland, Marjorie.
School Teacher.
(1234) Synon, Mary (for biography, see 1917).
*Loaded Dice.
(5) Venable, Edward C.
Race.
(345) Vorse, Mary Heaton (for biography, see 1917).
*Gift of Courage.
*Man's Son.
*Other Room.
*Treasure.
(5) Williams, Ben Ames (for biography, see 1918).
*Field of Honor.
Williams, Margaret Clark.
*Drunken Passenger.
Wilson, Margaret Adelaide.
Perfect Interval.
Wood, Julia Francis. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, but has
always lived in Kansas City, Mo. Educated at Smith College,
Columbia University, and University of Madrid, Spain. Teaches
French in a private school. Chief interests: people, travel, and
the theatre. First short story, "Cupid and Jimmy Curtis,"
Century, Oct., 1910.
"It Is the Spirit that Quickeneth."
Wormser, G. Ranger.
Child Who Forgot to Sing.
Little Lives.
Yeaman, Anna Hamilton. Born in Rye, N. Y., and is married.
She is of Southern ancestry. Was educated in private schools,
and published her first short story, "Concerning Christopher,"
in Leslie's Monthly, 1902. Author of "My Lil' Angelo," 1903.
Lives in Madison, N. J.
To the Utmost.
Yezierska, Anzia. Born in Russia in 1886. Came to New York
in 1895. Her schooling began in the sweatshop when she was
nine years old—ten and twelve hours a day, seven days a week,
for a dollar and a half. She is driven by one desire: to learn
how to write. Her hours of work to earn mere bread and
rent have been so long that she has never had yet a chance to
learn good English in her opinion, and that is why she writes
in dialect. Her first story, "The Free Vacation House," appeared
in The Forum, December, 1915. Lives in New York
City.
*"Fat of the Land."
*Miracle.