Untermeyer.
Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): Nov. 10, p. 29 (portrait).
Poetry, 4 ('14): 163; 15 ('20): 343.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.
+Stewart Edward White+--novelist, short story writer.
Born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1873, of pioneer ancestry. At the age of
twelve, went with his father to California and for four years lived
mostly in the saddle. At the age of sixteen, went to high school in
Michigan but spent much time in the woods, studying the birds and making
a large collection of specimens. Ph.B., University of Michigan, 1895;
A.M., 1903. Went to the Black Hills in a gold rush, but returned poor and
went to Columbia to study law, 1896-7. He was influenced by Brander
Matthews to write. Made his way into literature via book-selling and
reviewing. Explored in the Hudson Bay wilderness and in Africa, spent a
winter as a lumberman in a lumber camp, and finally went to the Sierras
of California to live. He is a thorough woodsman.