views, see _Book Review Digest_, 1921.
+Meredith Nicholson+--novelist, man of letters.
Born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1866. His reputation was founded upon
the novel, _The House of a Thousand Candles_, 1905. He has published also
several volumes of essays and studies, beginning with _The Hoosiers_
(National Studies in American Letters), 1900. Note among them _The Valley
of Democracy_, 1918, a characterization of the Middle West. For
bibliography, cf. _Who's Who In America_.
+Charles Gilman Norris+--novelist.
Brother of Frank Norris, the novelist. Married Kathleen Thompson (cf.
Kathleen Norris).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Amateur.
Salt: The Education of Griffith Adams. 1918.
Brass. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 679.
New Repub. 29 ('21): 48. (Lovett.)
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.
+Kathleen Norris+--novelist.
Born at San Francisco, 1880. Educated privately. Had experience as
business woman. Married Charles Gilman Norris (q.v.), 1909.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mother. 1911.
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne. 1912.
*"Saturday's Child." 1914.
The Story of Julia Page. 1915.
The Heart of Rachael. 1916.
Martie, the Unconquered. 1917.
The Beloved Woman. 1921.
Lucretia Lombard. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
Bookm. 34 ('11): 437 (portrait); 37 ('13): 109 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1911, 1913-7.
+Grace Fallow Norton+--poet.
Born at Northfield, Minnesota, 1876.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's. 1912.
The Sister of the Wind. 1914.
Roads. 1916.
What is Your Legion? 1916.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Poetry, 5 ('14): 87; 11 ('17): 164.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1912, 1914, 1916.
+Frederick O'Brien+--travel writer.
Mr. O'Brien's account of his experiences in the Marquesas Islands created
a literary fashion for the South Sea Islands.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
White Shadows in the South Seas. 1919.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. 1921.
See _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1921.
+Eugene Gladstone O'Neill+--dramatist.
Born in New York City, 1888. Son of the actor, James O'Neill. Studied at
Princeton, 1906-7. Much of the material used in his plays seems to be
drawn from or based upon his adventurous experiences between 1907 and
1914. Actor and newspaper reporter. Spent two years at sea. In 1909, is
said to have gone on a gold-prospecting expedition
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