Were both Owen Wister and Edith Wharton American writers?
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Owen Wister Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer, historian and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing "The Virginian" and a biography of American Civil War Lt. Gen. and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Edith Wharton Edith Wharton ( ; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed the lives and morals of the late nineteenth century, an era of decline and faded wealth. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, and was the first woman to receive this honor. Wharton was acquainted with many of the well-known people of her day, both in America and in Europe, including President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Wharton Esherick Studio Wharton Esherick Studio, now housing the Wharton Esherick Museum, was the studio of the craftsman-artist Wharton Esherick (1887–1970), in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The Studio was built between 1926 and 1966, reflecting Esherick's evolving sculptural style—from Arts and Crafts, through German Expressionism, ending with the free form Modernist curves that marked his later work.
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Anna de Brémont Anna, Countess de Brémont (née Dunphy; c. 1856 – 1922) was an American journalist, novelist, poet and singer. She spent much of her life in England. A period in South Africa provided the material for some of her books.
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Robert O. Bowen Robert Owen Bowen (born May 7, 1920 in Bridgeport, Connecticut; died June 9, 2003) was an American novelist and essayist.
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Ted Stetson T. W. 'Ted' Stetson is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction.
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The Old Maid (play) The Old Maid is a 1935 play adapted by American playwright Zoë Akins from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name, included in the collection "Old New York". It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 305 performances at the Empire Theatre in 1935.
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Edith Stanton Edith P. Foulke Stanton was a teacher, writer at newspapers and magazines, and an author of books. She lived in Ormond Beach, Florida and is listed as a Great Floridian. Her son shared her interest in history.
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Charlotte Anne Eaton Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788–1859), née Waldie, was an English banker, travel writer, memoirist and novelist.
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Ethel Owen Ethel Owen (March 30, 1893 – February 16, 1997) was an American actress with a lengthy career on stage as well as radio and television. In her early sixties, during the mid-1950s, she had a memorable recurring TV role on "The Honeymooners", playing Mrs. Gibson, Ralph Kramden's sharp-tongued, interfering mother-in-law.
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Edward Weismiller Edward Ronald Weismiller (August 3, 1915 Monticello, Wisconsin - August 25, 2010 Washington, D.C.) was an American poet, scholar and professor of English, George Washington University. .
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Owen Rutter Edward Owen Rutter (7 November 1889 – 2 August 1944) was an English historian, novelist and travel writer.
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Anna Wickham Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1883–1947), a British poet with strong Australian connections. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer, though one who did not command sustained critical attention in her lifetime. Her reputation has improved considerably since her death and she is now regarded as an important early 20th century woman writer.
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Frederic Morton Frederic Morton (October 5, 1924 – April 20, 2015) was an Austrian-born American writer.
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Fanny Imlay Frances "Fanny" Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the daughter, born out of wedlock, of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay. Wollstonecraft wrote about her frequently in her later works. Fanny grew up in the household of anarchist political philosopher William Godwin, the widower of her mother, with his second wife and their combined family of five children. Fanny's half-sister Mary grew up to write "Frankenstein" and married Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading Romantic poet, who composed a poem on Fanny's death.
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E. W. Howe Edgar Watson Howe (May 3, 1853 – October 3, 1937), sometimes referred to as E. W. Howe, was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was perhaps best known for his magazine, "E.W. Howe's Monthly". Howe was well traveled and known for his sharp wit in his editorials.
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Edith Kingdon Edith Mary Kingdon Gould (August 24, 1864 – November 13, 1921) was an American actress. She married George Jay Gould I.
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Elizabeth Akers Allen Elizabeth Anne (Chase) Akers Allen (October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911), initially writing as Florence Percy and Elizabeth Akers, was an American poet and journalist.
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Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood Mary Elizabeth Wilson (1830-1903) was an American author and activist.
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Edith Lewis Edith Lewis (December 22, 1881–August 1972) was a magazine editor at "McClure's Magazine", the managing editor of "Every Week Magazine", and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson Co. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and was named executor of Cather's literary estate in Willa Cather's will. After Cather's death, Lewis published a memoir of Willa Cather in 1953 titled "Willa Cather Living".
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May Sarton May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist and memoirist.
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Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (or Emily Whitfield Croom Bellamy; pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837–1900) was an American novelist and essayist, born in Quincy, Florida, 17 April, 1839. She was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female seminary in Eutaw, Alabama, for several years. Bellamy wrote under the pen-name "Kamba Thorpe" (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") "Four Oaks" (New York, 1867), and "Little Joanna" (New York, 1876). Additional works included "Old Man Gilbert" (1888) and the "The Luck of the Pendennings" (1895, Ladies Home Journal). She contributed essays to the "Mobile Sunday Times". Bellamy died in 1900.