(4) *BEER, THOMAS* (_for biography, see 1917_).
Beneficiary.
“*BRANGWYN, JOHN.*” First story published, “Bell-Tower of P’an-Ku.” His
first book will be published soon. He lives in Washington, D. C.
*Bell-Tower of P’an-Ku.
*BROWN, HEARTY EARL.* Born 1886, Schoolcraft, Mich. Degrees A.B. and
M.A. from University of Michigan. Member of the English Faculty,
University of Kansas. First published story, “The Marrying Time,”
Atlantic Monthly, October, 1918. Lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Marrying Time.
(23) *BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND.* Born in Alton, Ill. Educated in
Washington, D. C., and at University of Michigan. Profession, writer of
fiction. Chief interest, writing. First published stories: “2620 Oxford
Place,” Lippincott’s Magazine, August, 1900, “The Mathematics Man,”
Woman’s Home Companion, August, 1900. Books published: “Diane,” 1904;
“Dawn,” 1907; “The Messenger,” 1910; “White Roses,” 1910; “Philippa at
Halcyon,” 1910; “Uncertain Irene,” 1911; “The Hallowell Partnership,”
1912; “Wages of Honor,” 1917. Lives at Long Beach, Cal.
*Buster.
*BROWNELL, AGNES MARY.* Born at Concordia, Kans. Educated in Concordia
public and high schools, supplemented by four years in a western school
of music. Music teacher. Chief interests, music, an ineradicable habit
of prowling around libraries, and out-of-door jaunts. First published
story, “The Fifer,” Youth’s Companion, June 28, 1917. Lives at
Concordia, Kans.
Sanctuary.
(14) *BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS.* (_for biography, see 1917_).
Wings of the Morning.
*BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.* Born at Muscatine, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1869. One year
in Muscatine high school. Bill clerk, bookkeeper, salesman, editor, and
now acting Cashier of Flushing National Bank, of which he is
Vice-President. Chief interest, letting himself know he is alive. First
published story, “Shorty and Frank’s Adventure,” in a deceased
publication whose name is forgotten. Author of “Pigs is Pigs,” 1906;
“French Decorative Styles,” 1906; “The Incubator Baby,” 1906; “Mr.
Perkins of Portland,” 1906; “The Great American Pie Co.,” 1907;
“Confessions of a Daddy,” 1907; “Kilo,” 1907; “The Cheerful Smugglers,”
1908; “That Pup,” 1908; “The Thin Santa Claus,” 1909; “Mike Flannery on
Duty and Off,” 1909; “Water Goats and Other Troubles,” 1910; “Adventures
of a Suburbanite,” 1911; “The Jack Knife Man,” 1913; “Red Head and
Whistle Breeches,” 1916; “Dominie Dean,” 1917; and “Philo Gubb,” 1918.
Lives in Flushing, N. Y.
*Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk.
(2) *BUTLER, KATHARINE.* Born in Baltimore, Md., Oct 2, 1890, of New
England parentage. Has lived in Salem, Mass., and the nearby inland
countryside of Essex County since 1896. Education desultory. First
published story, “In No Strange Land,” Atlantic Monthly, March, 1915.
Lives in Danvers, Mass.
*Black Pearl.
*CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.* Born in Richmond, Va., April 14, 1879. Educated
at McGuire’s School in Richmond, and graduated from College of William
and Mary, 1898. Professions in order: school teacher, proof reader,
newspaper reporter, and coal miner: at present, genealogist and writer.
First published stories: “Love Letters of Falstaff,” Harper’s Monthly,
March, 1902; and “As Played Before His Highness” (republished as “The
Ducal Audience”), Smart Set, 1902. Author of the following volumes:
(novels) “The Eagle’s Shadow,” 1904; “The Cords of Vanity,” 1909; “The
Soul of Melicent,” 1913; “The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck,” 1915; “The
Cream of the Jest,” 1917; (tales) “The Line of Love,” 1905; “Gallantry,”
1907; “Chivalry,” 1909; “The Certain Hour,” 1916; (essays) “Beyond
Life,” 1918; (verse) “From the Hidden Way,” 1916; (genealogy)
“Branchiana,” 1906; “Branch of Abingdon,” 1911; “The Majors and Their
Marriages,” 1915. Lives at Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Va.
*Some Ladies and Jurgen.
(23) *CANFIELD, DOROTHY (MRS. JOHN R. FISHER).* Born at Lawrence, Kans.,
Feb. 17, 1879. Graduate of Ohio State University and Columbia
University. Secretary Horace Mann School, 1902-05. Married, 1907. Has
traveled widely in Europe. Now assisting Miss Winifred Holt in War
Relief Work at Paris. Author of “Corneille and Racine in England,” 1904;
(with G. R. Carpenter) “English Rhetoric and Composition,” 1906; “What
Shall We Do Now?” 1906; “Gunhild,” 1907; “The Squirrel-Cage,” 1912; “The
Montessori Mother,” 1913; “Mothers and Children,” 1914; “Hillsboro
People,” 1915; “The Bent Twig,” 1915; “The Real Motive,” 1916; (with
Sarah Cleghorn) “Fellow Captains,” 1916; “Understood Betsy,” 1917; “Home
Fires In France,” 1918. Lives at Arlington, Vt.
Little Kansas Leaven.
On the Edge.
Pharmacienne.
*CARVER, GEORGE.*
In a Moment of Time.
(234) *COBB, IRVIN S.* (_for biography, see 1917_).
*Gallowsmith.
(4) *CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN* (_for biography, see 1917_).
Wild-Wing.
*DICKINSON, ROY.* Born at Newark, N. J., March 14, 1888. Educated at
Newark Academy and Princeton University, graduating in 1909. Profession,
advertising and manufacturing. Five years with Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Chief interests, labor psychology and the other fellow’s viewpoint.
First story published, “Playing Hookey,” Delineator, November, 1916. Now
Captain in the Ordnance Department at Washington. Engaged in work for
stimulating industry in ordnance plants.
Some of Our Folks, and War.
(4) *DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL.* (_for biography, see 1917_).
*Open Window.
(134) *DWIGHT, H. G.* (_for biography, see 1917_) _and_ *TAYLOR, JOHN.*
*Emerald of Tamerlane.
*“ELDERLY SPINSTER” (MARGARET WILSON).* Born in Iowa, Jan. 16, 1882.
Graduated from University of Chicago, 1904. Lived in India for the most
part, 1904 to 1916. Since then she has been resting, gardening, and
farming. Chief interest, the Americanization of American children
through the school in which she is teaching. First published story,
“Taffeta Trousers,” Atlantic Monthly, December, 1917.
God’s Little Joke.
*ELLERBE, ALMA ESTABROOK,* and *ELLERBE, PAUL LEE.* Mrs. Ellerbe was
born in Greenfield, Ind., and educated at Oxford College, Ohio. Chief
interests, people, writing, and automobiling. First published magazine
story, “The Requital,” Harper’s Magazine, September, 1903. Author of
“The Rule of Three.” Mr. Ellerbe was born in Montgomery, Ala. Had one
year in which he scrupulously refrained from study at the University of
the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Now Assistant Chief, Americanization section,
Council of National Defense. Chief interests: English poetry, music,
writing, automobiling. First published story, “The Vacant Forty,”
Lippincott’s Magazine, March, 1913. Has been chief naturalization
examiner for the U. S. Department of Labor at Denver. Chautauqua
lecturer. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbe plan to do all their writing in
collaboration, preferably in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies.
Citizen Paper.
*FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD.*
_See_ *CANFIELD, DOROTHY.*
*FREEDLEY, MARY MITCHELL.* Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1894.
Granddaughter of S. Weir Mitchell. Previous to her marriage she was much
interested in the betterment of economic conditions relating to woman’s
labor, and at one time organized and managed The Philadelphia Trades
School for Girls. She is the wife of an actor, Vinton Freedley, and her
interests are mainly of the stage and things theatrical. She has never
done any previous writing and is at present chiefly concerned with the
business of “being a woman” and the wife of a soldier.
*Blind Vision.
(1234) *FREEMAN, MARY E. WILKINS.* (_for biography, see 1917_).