Bookm. 17 ('03): 308 (portrait); 31 ('10): 486 (portrait); 38 ('13): 9.
Bookm. (Lond.) 27 ('05): 253; 46 ('14): 31 (portrait and illustrations).
Mentor, 6 ('18): supp. no. 14 (portrait only).
Outing, 43 ('03): 218 (portrait).
World's Work, 6 ('03): 3695. (portrait).
+Brand Whitlock+--novelist, short story writer.
Born at Urbana, Ohio, 1869. Educated in public schools and privately.
Honorary higher degrees. Newspaper experience in Toledo and Chicago,
1887-93. Clerk in office of Secretary of State, Springfield, Illinois,
1893-7. Studied law and was admitted to the bar, (Illinois, 1894; Ohio,
1897). Practiced in Toledo, Ohio, 1897-1905. Elected mayor as Independent
candidate, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911; declined fifth nomination. Minister
(1913) and ambassador (1919) to Belgium and did distinguished war service
there.
Mr. Whitlock has made his political experience the basis of his most
interesting contributions to literature.