*Understudy, The.
NAFE, GERTRUDE. Born in Grand Island, Neb., 1883. Graduate of University
of Colorado. Teaches English in East Denver High School. Her chief
interest in life is revolution. Her first contribution was "The Woman
Who Stood in the Market Place," published in Mother Earth in February,
1914. Lives in Denver, Colo.
One Hundred Dollars.
NICHOLSON, MEREDITH. Born at Crawfordsville, Ind., 1866. Educated in
Indianapolis public schools. Married, 1896. Member of National Institute
of Arts and Letters. Author of "Short Flights," "The Hoosiers," "The
Main Chance," "Zelda Dameron," "The House of a Thousand Candles,"
"Poems," "The Port of Missing Men," "Rosalind at Red Gate," "The Little
Brown Jug at Kildare," "The Lords of High Decision," "The Siege of the
Seven Suitors," "The Hoosier Chronicle," "The Provincial American,"
"Otherwise Phyllis," "The Poet," "The Proof of the Pudding," "The
Madness of May," and "A Reversible Santa Claus."
"My first literary tinklings were in verse; you will note two volumes of
poems in my list. Finding at fifteen that the schools within my reach
did not meet my requirements, I went to work and began educating myself
along lines of least resistance. My occupations were various: worked in
printing offices, learned shorthand, became stenographer in a law
office; was in newspaper work for twelve years; at thirty was auditor
and treasurer of a coal-mining corporation in Colorado; after three
years of business became a writer of books. When I was eighteen I wrote
three short stories which were published, and after that wrote no
fiction till I was thirty-two. I haven't thought of it before, but it
was odd that I wrote no short stories and had no interest in that form
until about five years ago. Since then I have done a number every year.
Without being a politician, I have dabbled somewhat in political
matters, making speeches at times, and abusing my fellow partisans (I am
a Democrat) when they needed chastisement. I have been defeated for
nominations and have declined nominations, and I once refused a foreign
appointment of considerable dignity that was very kindly offered me by a
President. When it comes to 'interests' I have, I suppose, a
journalistic mind. Anything that is of contemporaneous human interest
interests me--even free verse, which I despise, but read." Mr. Nicholson
lives in Indianapolis.
*Heart of Life, The.
NORTON, ROY. Born at Kewanee, Ill., 1869. High school education. Studied
law, mining, and languages. Married, 1894. Practiced law at Ogden, 1892.
In newspaper work for some years. Democrat. Roman Catholic. Mason.
Author of "Guilty" (with William Hallowell), "The Vanishing Fleets,"
"The Toll of the Sea," "Mary Jane's Pa," "The Garden of Fate," "The
Plunderer," "Captains Three," "The Mediator," "The Moccasins of Gold,"
"The Boomers," and "The Man of Peace." Lives in New Jersey.
Aunt Seliny.
(2) O'BRIEN, SEUMAS. Born at Glenbrook, County Cork, Ireland, April 26,
1880,--three days and three hundred and sixteen years (?) after Mr.
William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon. Education: none or very
little, and less German than French. Profession: pessimist. Chief
interests: Russian Jewesses and American dollars. In more sober truth,
education: Presentation Brothers Schools, Cork School of Art, Cork
School of Music, Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, and Royal College
of Art, London. Profession: sculptor and dramatist. Chief interests:
literature, art, and music. First magazine to publish his work, The
Tatler. Author of "The Whale and the Grasshopper," "Duty, and Other
Irish Comedies," and "The Knowledgeable Man." Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.
*Murder?
O'HIGGINS, HARVEY J. Born in London, Ont., 1876. Educated at public
schools and Toronto University. In newspaper work from 1897 to 1902.
First short story, "Not for Publication," in Youth's Companion, March,
1902. Chief interests: those of a publicist, aiding social and political
reforms. Author of "The Smoke Eaters," "Don-a-Dreams," "A Grand Army
Man," "Old Clinkers," "The Beast and the Jungle" (with Judge Ben B.
Lindsey), "Under the Prophet in Utah" (with Frank J. Cannon), "The
Argyle Case" (with Harriet Ford), "The Dummy," "Polygamy," "Silent Sam"
(with Harriet Ford), and "Adventures of Detective Barney." He lives in
New Jersey.
From the Life: Thomas Wales Warren.
(3) O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT. Born in New York, 1872. Graduate of Oxford.
Author of "The Good Girl," "Sentiment," "Of Human Affairs," and many
other books. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.
*Interval, The.
PANGBORN, GEORGIA WOOD. Born at Malone, N. Y., 1872. Educated at
Franklin Academy, Malone; Packer Institute, Brooklyn, and Smith College.
Married, 1894. First short story, "The Grek Collie," Scribner's
Magazine, July, 1903. Author of "Roman Biznet" and "Interventions."
Lives in New York City.
*Bixby's Bridge.
PERRY, LAWRENCE. Born in Newark, N. J., 1875. Educated in public and
private schools. He had a choice between college and the New York Sun
(Charles A. Dana, then editor) as a medium of higher education. Has
always regarded his decision in favor of the Sun as wise, considering an
ambition to learn life and then write about it. On staff of Sun and
Evening Sun, 1897-1905. Went to Evening Post, 1906; there organized and
edited "Yachting" until 1909. Has since concentrated on inter-collegiate
sport and fiction. His first story, "Joe Lewis," in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly, September, 1902. Author of "Dan Merrithew," "Prince or
Chauffeur," "Holton," and "The Fullback." Lives in New York City.
*"Certain Rich Man, A.--"