Untermeyer.
Bookm. 42 ('15): 365 (portrait), 457.
47 ('18): 392 (Phelps).
Forum, 65 ('21): 229.
Lit. Digest, 58 (18'): 29 (portrait).
New Repub. 15 ('18): 239.
Poetry, 7 ('15): 148; 12 ('18): 264; 17 ('21): 272.
Touchstone, 2 ('17): 310 (portrait).
+Augustus Thomas+--dramatist.
Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1859. Son of the director of a theatre in
New Orleans. As a boy often went to plays; began to write them at
fourteen; at sixteen or seventeen, organized an amateur company. Educated
in the St. Louis public schools. Page in the 41st Congress. Honorary
A.M., Williams, 1914. Studied law two years; had six years of experience
in railroading. Special writer, and illustrator on St. Louis, Kansas
City, and New York newspapers.