CLASSIFIED INDEXES
Reading edition
(Since the authors appear in the body of the book in alphabetical order, page references have been omitted in these indexes.)
I. POETS
Adams, Franklin P.
Aiken, Conrad
Akins, Zoë
Aldington, Mrs. Richard (“H. D.”)
Anderson, Sherwood
Arensberg, Walter Conrad
Bangs, John Kendrick
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Benét, William Rose
Bodenheim, Maxwell
Brody, Alter
Brown, Alice
Burroughs, John
Burton, Richard
Bynner, Witter
Cabell, James Branch
Carman, Bliss
Clark, Badger
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe
Conkling, Grace Hazard
Conkling, Hilda
Corbin, Alice
Crapsey, Adelaide
Cromwell, Gladys
Daly, T. A.
Dargan, Olive Tilford
Davies, Mary Carolyn
Deutsch, Babette
Eastman, Max
Eliot, T. S.
Erskine, John
Faulks, Theodosia (Garrison)
Ficke, Arthur Davison (“Anne Knish”)
Fletcher, John Gould
Frost, Robert
Fuller, Henry B.
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
Gifford, Fannie Stearns Davis
Giovannitti, Arturo
Guiterman, Arthur
Hagedorn, Hermann, Jr.
Howells, William Dean
Johns, Orrick
Johnson, Robert Underwood
Kilmer, Aline
Kilmer, Joyce
Knibbs, H. H.
Kreymborg, Alfred
Lindsay, Vachel
Lowell, Amy
Mackaye, Percy
Markham, Edwin
Marquis, Don
Martin, Edward Sandford
Masters, Edgar Lee
Mifflin, Lloyd
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Monroe, Harriet
Moore, Marianne
Morley, Christopher
Neihardt, John G.
Norton, Grace Fallow
Oppenheim, James
Peabody, Josephine Preston
Piper, Edwin Ford
Pound, Ezra
Reese, Lizette Woodward
Rice, Cale Young
Ridge, Lola
Riley, James Whitcomb
Roberts, Charles George Douglas
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Edwin Meade
Sandburg, Carl
Santayana, George
Sarett, Lew R.
Scollard, Clinton
Scott, Evelyn
Seeger, Alan
Sterling, George
Stevens, Wallace
Stringer, Arthur
Taylor, Bert Leston (“B. L. T.”)
Teasdale, Sara
Tietjens, Eunice
Torrence, Ridgely
Traubel, Horace
Untermeyer, Jean Starr
Untermeyer, Louis
Van Dyke, Henry
Wattles, Willard
Welles, Winifred
Wheelock, John Hall
Widdemer, Margaret
Wilkinson, Marguerite
Williams, William Carlos
Wood, C. E. S.
Woodberry, George Edward
SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF POETS
(Not included in this volume, but included in Untermeyer’s Modern American Poetry, Monroe and Henderson’s The New Poetry, or Others for 1916, 1917, 1919.)
Aldis, Mary. Monroe. Others, 1916.
Barrett, Wilton Agnew. Monroe.
Beach, Joseph Warren. Monroe.
Branch, Anna Hempstead. Untermeyer.
Britten, Rollo. Monroe.
Brown, Robert Carleton. Others, 1916
Burr, Amelia Josephine. Untermeyer.
Cannéll, Skipwith. Monroe. Others, 1916, 1917.
Carnevale, Emanuele. Others, 1919.
Curran, Edwin. Untermeyer.
Dodd, Lee Wilson. Monroe.
D’Orge, Jeanne. Others, 1917, 1919.
Driscoll, Louise. Monroe.
Dudley, Dorothy. Monroe.
Dudley, Helen. Monroe.
Evans, Donald. Others, 1919.
Frank, Florence Kiper. Monroe.
Gilman, Charlotte P. S. Untermeyer.
Glaenzer, Richard Butler. Monroe.
Gorman, Herbert S. Untermeyer.
Gould, Wallace. Others, 1919.
Gregg, Frances. Others, 1916.
Groff, Alice. Others, 1916.
Guiney, Louise Imogen. Untermeyer.
Hartley, Marsden. Others, 1916.
Hartpence, Alanson. Others, 1916.
Helton, Roy. Untermeyer.
Herford, Oliver. Untermeyer.
Holley, Horace. Monroe. Others, 1916.
Hoyt, Helen. Monroe. Others, 1916, 1917.
Iris, Scharmel. Monroe.
Jennings, Leslie Nelson. Untermeyer.
Johnson, Fenton. Others, 1919.
Kemp, Harry. Untermeyer.
Laird, William. Monroe.
Lee, Agnes. Monroe.
Leonard, William Ellery. Monroe. Untermeyer.
Long, Lily A. Others, 1919.
Loy, Mina. Others, 1916, 1917, 1919.
McCarthy, John Russell. Others, 1916.
McClure, John. Others, 1916.
Michelson, Max. Monroe. Others, 1919.
Morton, David. Untermeyer.
Noguchi, Yone. Monroe.
O’Brien, Edward J. Others, 1916.
O’Neil, David. Others, 1917.
O’Sheel, Shaemas. Untermeyer.
Ramos, Edward. Others, 1916.
Ray, Man. Others, 1916.
Reed, John. Monroe.
Reyher, Ferdinand. Others, 1916.
Rodker, John. Others, 1916, 1917.
Sainsbury, Hester. Others, 1916.
Sanborn, Pitts. Others, 1916.
Sanborn, Robert Alden. Others, 1916, 1917, 1919.
Saphier, William. Others, 1919.
Seiffert, Marjorie Allen. Others, 1919.
Shanafelt, Clara. Monroe.
Shaw, Frances. Monroe.
Sherman, Frank Dempster. Untermeyer.
Skinner, Constance Lindsay. Monroe.
Syrian, Ajan. Monroe.
Thomas, Edith Matilda. Untermeyer.
Towne, Charles Hanson. Monroe.
Upward, Allen. Monroe.
White, Hervey. Monroe.
Wilkinson, Florence. Monroe.
Wolff, Adolph. Others. 1916.
Wyatt, Edith. Monroe.
Zorach, Marguerite. Others, 1916.
Zorach, William. Others, 1916.
II. DRAMATISTS
Ade, George
Akins, Zoë
Austin, Mary Hunter
Belasco, David
Broadhurst, George H.
Brown, Alice
Bynner, Witter
Churchill, Winston
Cobb, Irvin S.
Cook, George Cram
Crothers, Rachel
Dargan, Olive Tilford
Dell, Floyd
Dreiser, Theodore
Ferber, Edna
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
Fuller, Henry B.
Gale, Zona
Glaspell, Susan
Glass, Montague
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer
Hamilton, Clayton
Hecht, Ben
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Howells, William Dean
James, Henry
Kennedy Charles Rann
Kreymborg, Alfred
Lovett, Robert Morss
Mackaye, Percy
Marks, Jeannette
Middleton, George
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Moeller, Philip
Morley, Christopher
O’Neill, Eugene
Peabody, Josephine Preston
Pinski, David
Rice, Cale Young
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Sheldon, Edward Brewster
Tarkington, Booth
Thomas, Augustus
Torrence, Ridgely
Walker, Stuart
Walter, Eugene
Wellman, Rita
Wilde, Percival
Wilson, Harry Leon
III. NOVELISTS
Adams, Henry
Aikman, H. G.
Allen, James Lane
Anderson, Sherwood
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin
Austin, Mary Hunter
Bacheller, Irving
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Björkman, Edwin Brooks, C. S.
Brown, Alice
Bullard, Arthur (“Albert Edwards”)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Cabell, James Branch
Cable, George W.
Cahan, Abraham
Cather, Willa Sibert
Chester, George Randolph
Churchill, Winston
Cleghorn, Sarah
Comfort, Will Levington
Cournos, John
Curwood, James Oliver
Deland, Margaretta Wade
Dell, Floyd
Dos Passos, John
Dreiser, Theodore
“Edwards, Albert.” See Bullard, Arthur
Ferber, Edna
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fox, John, Jr.
Frank, Waldo David
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
French, Alice (“Octave Thanet”)
Fuller, Henry B.
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
Gerould, Katherine Fullerton
Glasgow, Ellen
Glaspell, Susan
Grant, Robert
Grey, Zane
Hagedorn, Hermann
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne
Harris, Frank
Harrison, Henry Sydnor
Hecht, Ben
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Herrick, Robert
Howells, William Dean
Irwin, Wallace
James, Henry
Johnson, Owen
Johnston, Mary
King, Grace
Kyne, Peter B.
Lee, Jennette
Lefevre, Edwin
Lewis, Sinclair
Lincoln, Joseph C.
London, Jack
Lovett, Robert Morss
McCutcheon, George Barr
Marks, Jeannette
Martin, George Madden
Martin, Helen Reimensnyder
Masters, Edgar Lee
Nathan, Robert
Nicholson, Meredith
Norris, Charles G.
Norris, Kathleen
Oppenheim, James
O’Sullivan, Vincent
Page, Thomas Nelson
Perry, Bliss
Poole, Ernest
Quick, Herbert
Rice, Alice Hegan
Roberts, Charles G. D.
Scott, Evelyn
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
Sinclair, Upton
Singmaster, Elsie
Steele, Wilbur Daniel
Stringer, Arthur
Strunsky, Simeon
Tarkington, Booth
“Thanet, Octave.” See French, Alice
Tietjens, Eunice
Tobenkin, Elias
Watts, Mary S.
Webster, Henry Kitchell
Wharton, Edith
White, Stewart Edward
Whitlock, Brand
Widdemer, Margaret
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Williams, Ben Ames
Williams, Jesse Lynch
Wilson, Harry Leon
Wister, Owen
IV. SHORT-STORY WRITERS
Ade, George
Allen, James Lane
Anderson, Sherwood
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Austin, Mary Hunter
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Bangs, John Kendrick
Bercovici, Konrad
Brown, Alice
Cabell, James Branch
Cable, George W.
Cather, Willa Sibert
Chester, George Randolph
Cobb, Irvin S.
Cohen, Octavus Roy
Connolly, James Brendan
Deland, Margaretta Wade
Dreiser, Theodore
Ferber, Edna
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Ford, Sewell
Fox, John
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
French, Alice (“Octave Thanet”)
Fuller, Henry B.
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
Gerould, Katharine Fullerton
Glaspell, Susan
Glass, Montague
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Howells, William Dean
Hurst, Fannie
Irwin, Wallace
James, Henry
Johnson, Owen
King, Grace
Kyne, Peter B.
Lee, Jennette
Lefevre, Edwin
London, Jack
Martin, George Madden
Martin, Helen Reimensnyder
Matthews, Brander
Oppenheim, James
O’Sullivan, Vincent
Page, Thomas Nelson
Perry, Bliss
Pinski, David
Rice, Alice Hegan
Singmaster, Elsie
Steele, Wilbur Daniel
“Thanet, Octave.” See French, Alice
Van Dyke, Henry
Webster, Henry Kitchell
Wharton, Edith
White, Stewart Edward
Widdemer, Margaret
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Williams, Jesse Lynch
Wister, Owen
V. ESSAYISTS
Adams, Henry
Beebe, William
Bradford, Gamaliel
Brooks, Charles S.
Broun, Heywood
Burroughs, John
Crothers, Samuel McChord
Eastman, Max
Erskine, John
Harris, Frank
Holliday, Robert Cortes
Kilmer, Joyce
Martin, Edward Sandford
Matthews, Brander
More, Paul Elmer
Morley, Christopher
Newton, Alfred Edward
Nicholson, Meredith
Pound, Ezra
Repplier, Agnes
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Strunsky, Simeon
Tarbell, Ida
Van Dyke, Henry
VI. CRITICS
Aiken, Conrad
Björkman, Edwin
Brooks, Van Wyck
Burton, Richard
Eastman, Max
Eaton, Walter Prichard
Eliot, T. S.
Hackett, Francis
Hamilton, Clayton
Holliday, Robert Cortes
Howells, William Dean
Huneker, James Gibbons
Lewisohn, Ludwig
Littell, Philip
Lovett, Robert Morss
Lowell, Amy
Matthews, Brander
Mencken, H. L.
More, Paul Elmer
Nathan, George Jean
Perry, Bliss
Phelps, William Lyon
Pound, Ezra
Santayana, George
Sherman, Stuart P.
Untermeyer, Louis
Van Doren, Carl
Woodberry, George Edward
VII. WRITERS ON COUNTRY LIFE, NATURE, AND TRAVEL
Baker, Ray Stannard (“David Grayson”)
Beebe, William
Burroughs, John
Eaton, Walter Prichard
“Grayson, David.” See Baker, Ray Stannard
Mills, Enos A.
O’Brien, Frederick
Roberts, Charles G. D.
Seton, Ernest Thompson
Sharp, Dallas Lore
VIII. HUMORISTS
Adams, Franklin P.
Ade, George
Bangs, John Kendrick
Burgess, Gelett
Cobb, Irvin S.
Dunne, Finley Peter
Leacock, Stephen
Marquis, Don
Martin, Edward Sandford
Robinson, Edwin Meade
Taylor, Bert Leston (“B. L. T.”)
IX. “COLUMNISTS”
Adams, Franklin P.
Broun, Heywood
Daly, Thomas Augustine
Marquis, Don
Morley, Christopher
Robinson, Edwin Meade
Taylor, Bert Leston (“B. L. T.”)
X. WRITERS OF BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORY
Adams, Henry
Antin, Mary
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (The One I Knew the Best of All)
Burroughs, John
Comfort, Will Levington (Mid-stream)
Du Bois, William E. B.
Eastman, Charles Alexander
Garland, Hamlin (A Son of the Middle Border; a Daughter of the Middle Border)
Harris, Frank
Howells, William Dean
Huneker, James G. (Steeplejack)
James, Henry
Lindsay, Vachel (Prose)
London, Jack (Martin Eden, John Barleycorn)
Sinclair, Upton (Arthur Sterling)
Tarbell, Ida
Traubel, Horace
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem (The Story of Mankind)
Whitlock, Brand
XI. AUTHORS GROUPED ACCORDING TO PLACE OF BIRTH
(In some cases information as to birthplace could not be obtained.)
Arkansas
Fletcher, John Gould
California
Atherton, Gertrude
Belasco, David
Frost, Robert
Kyne, Peter B.
London, Jack
Norris, Charles G.
Norris, Kathleen
Connecticut
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Burton, Richard
Lee, Jennette
Phelps, William Lyon
Welles, Winifred
District of Columbia (Washington)
Johnson, Robert Underwood
Wellman, Rita
Georgia
Aiken, Conrad
Idaho
Pound, Ezra
Illinois
Austin, Mary
Corbin, Alice (Chicago)
Crothers, Rachel
Crothers, Samuel McChord
Dell, Floyd
Dunne, Finley Peter (Chicago)
Fuller, Henry Blake (Chicago)
Lindsay, Vachel
Marquis, Don
Monroe, Harriet (Chicago)
Neihardt, John G.
Poole, Ernest (Chicago)
Sandburg, Carl
Sarett, Lew A. (Chicago)
Sheldon, Edward Brewster
Tietjens, Eunice (Chicago)
Van Doren, Carl
Webster, Henry Kitchell (Chicago)
Williams, Jesse Lynch
Wilson, Harry Leon
Indiana
Ade, George
Dreiser, Theodore
Holliday, Robert Cortes (Indianapolis)
McCutcheon, George Barr
Nathan, George Jean
Nicholson, Meredith
Riley, James Whitcomb
Robinson, Edwin Meade
Tarkington, Booth (Indianapolis)
Iowa
Clark, Badger
Cook, George Cram
Ficke, Arthur Davison
Glaspell, Susan
Sherman, Stuart Pratt
Kansas
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Masters, Edgar Lee
Mills, Enos A.
Wattles, Willard
Kentucky
Allen, James Lane
Cobb, Irvin S.
Dargan, Olive Tilford
Fox, John
Martin, George Madden
Rice, Alice Hegan
Rice, Cale Young
Walker, Stuart
Louisiana
Cable, George Washington
King, Grace Elizabeth
Matthews, Brander
Maine
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Maryland
Mencken, H. L. (Baltimore)
Sinclair, Upton (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Adams, Henry (Boston)
Bradford, Gamaliel (Boston)
Burgess, Gelett
Child, Richard Washburn
Connolly, James Brendan
Du Bois, William E. B.
Eaton, Walter Prichard
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
French, Alice (“Octave Thanet”)
Gerould, Katherine Fullerton
Grant, Robert (Boston)
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne
Herrick, Robert (Cambridge)
Lincoln, Joseph C.
Littell, Philip
Lovett, Robert Morss (Boston)
Lowell, Amy (Brookline)
Perry, Bliss
Taylor, Bert Leston
Woodberry, George Edward
Michigan
Baker, Ray Stannard (“David Grayson”)
Beach, Rex
Comfort, Will Levington
Curwood, James Oliver
Ferber, Edna
White, Stewart Edward
Minnesota
Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa)
Lewis, Sinclair
Norton, Grace Fallow
Oppenheim, James (St. Paul)
Mississippi
Bodenheim, Maxwell
Missouri (St. Louis)
Akins, Zoë
Bullard, Arthur (“Albert Edwards”)
Churchill, Winston
Eliot, T. S.
Hurst, Fannie
Johns, Orrick
More, Paul Elmer
Teasdale, Sara
Thomas, Augustus
Nebraska
Piper, Edwin Ford
New Hampshire
Brown, Alice
New Jersey
Brooks, Van Wyck
Faulks, Theodosia
Kilmer, Joyce
Middleton, George
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
Sharp, Dallas Lore
Traubel, Horace
New York
Bacheller, Irving
Bangs, John Kendrick
Beebe, William (Brooklyn)
Benét, William Rose
Broun, Heywood (Brooklyn)
Burroughs, John
Bynner, Witter (Brooklyn)
Conkling, Grace Hazard (City)
Conkling, Hilda
Crapsey, Adelaide
Cromwell, Gladys (City)
Deutsch, Babette (City)
Eastman, Max
Erskine, John (City)
Hagedorn, Hermann, Jr. (City)
Hamilton, Clayton (Brooklyn)
Hecht, Ben (City)
Irwin, Wallace
James, Henry (City)
Johnson, Owen (City)
Knibbs, H. H.
Kreymborg, Alfred (City)
Mackaye, Percy (City)
Martin, Edward Sandford
O’Neill, Eugene (City)
Peabody, Josephine Preston (City)
Scollard, Clinton
Seeger, Alan
Sterling, George
Untermeyer, Louis (City)
Wharton, Edith (City)
Wheelock, John Hall
Wilde, Percival (City)
North Carolina
Steele, Wilbur Daniel
Ohio
Anderson, Sherwood
Chester, George Randolph
Gifford, Fannie Stearns Davis (Cleveland)
Grey, Zane
Howells, William Dean
Torrence, Ridgely
Untermeyer, Jean Starr
Walter, Eugene (Cleveland)
Watts, Mary S.
Whitlock, Brand
Oregon
Markham, Edwin
Pennsylvania
Aldington, Hilda Doolittle (“H. D.”)
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Daly, T. A. (Philadelphia)
Deland, Margaretta Wade
Hergesheimer, Joseph (Philadelphia)
Huneker, James Gibbons (Philadelphia)
Martin, Helen Reimensnyder
Mifflin, Lloyd
Morley, Christopher
Newton, Alfred Edward (Philadelphia)
Repplier, Agnes (Philadelphia)
Singmaster, Elsie
Tarbell, Ida
Van Dyke, Henry
Widdemer, Margaret
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Philadelphia)
Wister, Owen (Philadelphia)
Wood, C. E. S.
South Carolina
Cohen, Octavus Roy
Tennessee
Harrison, Henry Sydnor
Marks, Jeanette
Virginia
Cabell, James Branch (Richmond)
Cather, Willa Sibert
Cleghorn, Sarah
Glasgow, Ellen (Richmond)
Johnston, Mary
Page, Thomas Nelson
Washington
Davies, Mary Carolyn
Wisconsin
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
XI. AUTHORS OF FOREIGN AND CANADIAN BIRTH
Antin, Mary (Russia)
Björkman, Edwin (Sweden)
Brody, Alter (Russia)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (England)
Cahan, Abraham (Lithuania?)
Carman, Bliss (Canada)
Giovannitti, Arturo (Italy)
Glass, Montague, (England)
Hackett, Francis (Ireland)
Harris, Frank (Ireland)
Kennedy, Charles Rann (England)
Leacock, Stephen (Canada)
Lewisohn, Ludwig (Germany)
Pinski, David (Russia)
Ridge, Lola (Ireland)
Roberts, Charles G. D. (Canada)
Santayana, George (Spain)
Seton, Ernest Thompson (England)
Stringer, Arthur (Canada)
Strunsky, Simeon (Russia)
Tobenkin, Elias (Russia)
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem (Holland)
Wilkinson, Marguerite (Canada)
XII. SUBJECT INDEX (INCLUDING BACKGROUND)
(This list is not complete but merely suggestive. Titles are given only in cases where the books might not be readily identified. Some special information is also given in parenthesis.)
Africa
White, Stewart Edward
Alaska
Beach, Rex
London, Jack
Animals. See Nature.
Arizona
White, Stewart Edward
Art and Artists
Ficke, Arthur Davison (Japanese)
Howells, W. D. (The Coast of Bohemia)
James, Henry
Norris, Charles G. (The Amateur)
Boston
Grant, Robert
Howells, William Dean
Business and Professions
Aikman, H. G.
Cahan, Abraham (The Rise of David Levinsky)
Chester, George Randolph
Dreiser, Theodore (The Financier, The Titan)
Ferber, Edna
Herrick, Robert
Howells, William Dean (The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Quality of Mercy)
Hurst, Fannie
Kyne, Peter B.
Lefevre, Edwin
Tarkington, Booth (The Turmoil)
California
Atherton, Gertrude
Austin, Mary
Irwin, Wallace (Japanese)
Lindsay, Vachel
Markham, Edwin
Sterling, George
White, Steward Edward
Canada
Curwood, James Oliver
Roberts, Charles G. D.
Stringer, Arthur
Capital and Labor
Anderson, Sherwood (Marching Men)
Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil)
French, Alice (The Man of the Hour, The Lion’s Share)
Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle, Jimmy Higgins, King Coal)
Tobenkin, Elias (The House of Conrad)
Webster, H. K. (An American Family)
Wharton, Edith (The Fruit of the Tree)
Chicago
Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush)
Dreiser, Theodore
Ferber, Edna (The Girls)
Fuller, Henry B. (The Cliff Dwellers, With the Procession)
Harris, Frank (The Bomb)
Herrick, Robert
Sandburg, Carl
Webster, Henry Kitchell
Children
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a child)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country)
Conkling, Hilda
James, Henry (What Maisie Knew)
Martin, George Madden
Masters, Edgar Lee (Mitch Miller)
Robinson, Edwin Meade (Enter Jerry)
Tarkington, Booth (Penrod)
Classical World
Aldington, Mrs. Richard (“H. D.”)
Pound, Ezra
College and University Life
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Bent Twig)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Johnson, Owen
Williams, Jesse Lynch
Colorado
Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark)
Sinclair, Upton (King Coal)
Country Life
Bachellor, Irving (Eben Holden)
Baker, Ray Stannard
Howells, William Dean (The Vacation of the Kelwyns)
Cowboys
Clark, Badger
Knibbs, H. H.
White, Stewart Edward
Wister, Owen
Creoles
Cable, George W.
King, Grace
Democracy
Bynner, Witter
Lindsay, Vachel
Sandburg, Carl
Desert
Grey, Zane
Wood, C. E. S.
Education
Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country)
Dell, Floyd (Were You Ever a Child?)
Norris, Charles G. (Salt)
England
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
James, Henry
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
France
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne
James, Henry (The American, The Ambassadors)
Tarkington, Booth (The Guest of Quesnay)
Wharton, Edith
Genius
Austin, Mary (A Woman of Genius)
Drieser, Theodore (The Genius)
James, Henry (The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund)
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas (Tante)
Gypsies
Bercovici, Konrad
Hawaii
London, Jack
Historical
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (The Perfect Tribute, The Counsel Assigned—Lincoln; The Marshal—Napoleonic period.)
Atherton, Gertrude (The Conqueror—Hamilton)
Brooks, C. S. (Luca Sarto—15th century France)
Bacheller, Irving (A Man for the Ages—Lincoln)
Cable, George W. (Old Louisiana, especially New Orleans)
Churchill, Winston (Richard Carvel—18th century; The Crisis—Civil War; The Crossing—early 19th century)
Glasgow, Ellen (Civil War and Reconstruction periods)
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne (Passe Rose—time of Charlemagne)
Harris, Frank (Great Days—time of Napoleon)
Hergesheimer, Joseph (The Three Black Pennys, Java Head—early American)
Johnston, Mary (Colonies—Virginia)
Mackaye, Percy (Various periods)
Rice, Cale Young (Various periods)
Tarkington, Booth (Monsieur Beaucaire—18th century England; Cherry—18th century America)
Watts, Mary S. (Nathan Burke—early Ohio)
Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision—18th century Italy)
Illinois
Lindsay, Vachel
Masters, Edgar Lee
Imaginary Country
Cabell, James Branch (Poictesme)
Howells, William Dean (Altruria)
McCutcheon, George Barr (Graustark)
Immigrants
Antin, Mary (Russian)
Cahan, Abraham (Lithuanian)
Cather, Willa Sibert (Bohemian)
Cournos, John
Daly, T. A. (Irish, Italian)
Mackaye, Percy (The Immigrants)
Tobenkin, Elias (Russian)
Indiana
Ade, George
Nicholson, Meredith
Riley, James Whitcomb
Tarkington, Booth
Indians
Austin, Mary
Eastman, Charles A.
Garland, Hamlin (The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.)
Neihardt, John G.
Sarett, Lew R.
Wister, Owen (Red Men and White)
Wood, C. E. S.
International Scenes
Atherton, Gertrude (The Aristocrats, American Wives and English Husbands)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Howells, William Dean
James, Henry
Wharton, Edith
Iowa
Garland, Hamlin
Quick, Herbert
Irish
Daly, T. A.
Dunne, Finley Peter
Italy and Italians
Daly, T. A.
Fuller, Henry B.
Howells, William Dean (A Foregone Conclusion)
James, Henry (Roderick Hudson, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove, The Aspern Papers, etc.)
Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision)
Japanese
Irwin, Wallace (in California)
Jews
Brody, Alter
Cahan, Abraham
Glass, Montague
Pinski, David
Ridge, Lola
Journalism
Cournos, John (The Wall)
Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance)
Kentucky
Allen, James Lane
Cobb, Irvin S.
Fox, John
Martin, George Madden
Rice, Alice Hegan
Marriage
Aikman, H. G. (Zell)
Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle)
Deland, Margaretta Wade
Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush)
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup)
Herrick, Robert (Together)
Norris, Charles G. (Brass)
Poole, Ernest (His Second Wife)
Webster, Henry Kitchell (Thoroughbred)
Widdemer, Margaret (I’ve Married Marjorie)
Williams, Jesse Lynch (And So They Were Married)
Middle West
Anderson, Sherwood
Cather, Willa Sibert
French, Alice (“Octave Thanet”)
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
Lewis, Sinclair
Lindsay, Vachel
Masters, Edgar Lee
Neihardt, John G.
Piper, Edwin Ford
Quick, Herbert
Sandburg, Carl
Montana
Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil—Butte)
Nature
Beebe, William
Burroughs, John
Eaton, Walter Prichard
London, Jack
Mills, Enos A.
Roberts, Charles G. D.
Seton, Ernest Thompson
Sharp, Dallas Lore
White, Stewart Edward
Nebraska
Cather, Willa Sibert
Piper, Edwin Ford
Negroes
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Cable, George W.
Cohen, Octavus Roy (contemporary, city)
Du Bois, William B.
Howells, William Dean (An Imperative Duty)
King, Grace
Lindsay, Vachel (The Congo)
O’Neill, Eugene (The Emperor Jones)
Page, Thomas Nelson
Sheldon, Edward (The Nigger)
Torrence, Ridgely (Plays for a Negro Theatre)
New England
Brown, Alice
Connolly, James Brendan (Gloucester fishermen)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Frost, Robert
Hergesheimer, Joseph (Java Head)
Howells, William Dean
Lee, Jennette
Lincoln, Joseph (Cape Cod)
Nathan, Robert
O’Neill, Eugene (Beyond the Horizon)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Wharton, Edith (Ethan Frome, Summer)
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
New Mexico
Corbin, Alice
New Orleans
Cable, George W.
King, Grace
New York
Bercovici, Konrad (The Dust of New York)
Ford, Sewell
Glass, Montague (Jewish)
Guiterman, Arthur (Old New York)
Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance)
Hurst, Fannie
James, Henry (Washington Square)
Poole, Ernest (The Harbor)
Strunsky, Simeon
Wharton, Edith (The Age of Innocence)
Nonsense
Bangs, John Kendrick
Burgess, Gelett
Leacock, Stephen
Marquis, Don
Ohio
Anderson, Sherwood
Howells, William Dean (The Leatherwood God, The New Leaf Mills)
Watts, Mary S.
Orient
Benét, William Rose (The Great White Wall)
Comfort, Will Levington
Guiterman, Arthur (Chips of Jade)
Lindsay, Vachel (The Chinese Nightingale)
Lowell, Amy (Fir-Flower Tablets)
Pound, Ezra
Tietjens, Eunice
Paris
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne
Wharton, Edith (Madame de Treymes)
Pennsylvania
Deland, Margaretta (Alleghany)
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Martin, Helen R. (Dutch)
Singmaster, Elsie (Dutch)
Philosophy (popular)
Baker, Ray Stannard (“David Grayson”)
Brooks, Charles S.
Crothers, Samuel McChord
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, and Cleghorn, Sarah (Fellow-Captains)
Morley, Christopher
Van Dyke, Henry
Pioneers
Cather, Willa Sibert (O Pioneers, My Antonia)
Neihardt, John G.
Politics
Atherton, Gertrude (Senator North)
Churchill, Winston (Coniston, Mr. Crewe’s Career)
Tarkington, Booth (The Gentleman from Indiana)
Whitlock, Brand
Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)
Prairie Life
Garland, Hamlin
Piper, Edwin Ford
Stringer, Arthur
Primitive Life
London, Jack
White, Stewart Edward
Psycho-analysis
Aiken, Conrad
Aikman, H. G. (Zell)
Anderson, Sherwood (The Triumph of the Egg)
Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a Child)
Dell, Floyd (Moon-Calf)
Religion
Churchill, Winston (The Inside of the Cup)
Deland, Margaretta (John Ward, Preacher)
Kennedy, Charles Rann (The Servant in the House, The Army with Banners)
Van Dyke, Henry
Wattles, Willard
San Francisco
Atherton, Gertrude
Sea and Sailors
Connolly, James B. (Gloucester fishermen)
Lincoln, Joseph C. (Cape Cod)
O’Neill, Eugene
Williams, Ben Ames
Social Service and Settlement Work
Bercovici, Konrad
Harrison, Henry Sydnor (V. V.’s Eyes)
Rice, Alice Hegan
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Socialism
Eastman, Max
Giovannitti, Arturo
Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, Annie Kilburn, The Eye of the Needle, A Traveler from Altruria)
Kennedy, Charles Rann
Markham, Edwin
Oppenheim, James
Poole, Ernest
Sinclair, Upton
Traubel, Horace
Whitlock, Brand (The Turn of the Balance)
Society
Adams, Henry (Democracy, Esther)
Atherton, Gertrude
Grant, Robert
James, Henry
Wharton, Edith
South America
Scott, Evelyn (Brazil)
South Seas
O’Brien, Frederick
London, Jack
Spiritualism, Supernatural
Belasco, David (The Return of Peter Grimm)
Brown, Alice (The Wind between the Worlds)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins (The Wind in the Rosebush)
Garland, Hamlin (The Tyranny of the Dark, The Shadow World, Victor Ollnee’s Discipline)
Stage
Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark)
Hurst, Fannie
Sheldon, Edward B. (Romance)
Watts, Mary S. (The Board-man Family)
Webster, Henry Kitchell (The Real Adventure, The Painted Scene)
Vermont
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup, Hillsboro People)
Nathan, Robert (Autumn)
Village and Provincial Town Life
Anderson, Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio)
Brown, Alice (New England)
Deland, Margaretta (Pennsylvania)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins (New England)
Gale, Zona (Wisconsin)
Lewis, Sinclair (Main Street—Minnesota)
Lindsay, Vachel (The Golden Book of Springfield)
Masters, Edgar Lee (Illinois)
Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)
Virginia
Cabell, James Branch
Glasgow, Ellen
Johnston, Mary
Page, Thomas Nelson
Wales
Marks, Jeannette
War
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Atherton, Gertrude (The White Morning)
Broun, Heywood
Comfort, Will Levington (Red Fleece)
Deland, Margaretta Wade (Small Things)
Dos Passos, John
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Kilmer, Joyce
Poole, Ernest (Blind)
Seeger, Alan
Wharton, Edith
Whitlock, Brand
Wilde, Percival (The Unseen Host)
Washington, D. C.
Atherton, Gertrude (Senator North)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Through One Administration)
Wisconsin
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
Women (Psychology of)
Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle)
Cleghorn, Sarah
Deland, Margaretta (The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Rising Tide)
Dreiser, Theodore (Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt)
Ferber, Edna (The Girls)
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Hergesheimer, Joseph (Linda Condon)
Johnson, Owen (The Salamander, Virtuous Wives)
Norris, Kathleen
Tarkington, Booth (Alice Adams, Gentle Julia)
Watts, Mary S. (The Rise of Jennie Cushing)
Youth (Psychology of)
Aikman, H. G. (Zell)
Allen, James Lane (A Summer in Arcady, The Kentucky Warbler)
Anderson, Sherwood
Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a Child)
Davies, Mary Carolyn
Dell, Floyd
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hecht, Ben
James, Henry (The Awkward Age)
Nathan, Robert (Peter Kindred)
Norris, Charles G. (Salt)
Tarkington, Booth (Seventeen, Clarence)
Widdemer, Margaret (The Boardwalk)
Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)
Transcriber’s Note
The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.
Misspelled words and typographical errors:
Page Error
xii “Loveman, Amy,” should end with a .
xii “Littell, Philip,” should end with a .
xii “Underwood, John Curtis,” should end with .
xiii “Aiken, Conrad,” should end with .
xv “Miscellany of American Poetry,” should end with .
xv “Stork, Charles Wharton,” should end with .
xviii “Morley, Christopher,” should end with .
xix “Mackay, Constance D’Arcy,” should end with .
xix “Mayorga, Margaret Gardner,” should end with .
xix “Shay, Frank,” should end with .
xix “Stratton, Clarence,” should end with .
38 “By the Chrismas Fire” should read “Christmas”
80 “31 (’14)” should be “31 (’10)”
82 “my ‘story,’ he said,” missing ” after story,’
103 “Jeannette(Augustus)” missing space before (
146 “portrait)” should read “(portrait)”
147 “Lit. Digest, 58 (18’)” should read “Lit. Digest, 58 (’18)”
169 “Brown, Robert Carleton. Others, 1916” should have . at end
171 “Kennedy Charles Rann” should have , after Kennedy
172 “Gerould, Katherine Fullerton” should read Katharine
178 “Child, Richard Washburn” does not have an entry in the main text of the book
178 “Gerould, Katherine Fullerton” should read Katharine
178 “Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
179 “Jeanette” should read Jeannette
180 “Glass, Montague, (England)” has an extra , after Montague
182 “Bachellor” should read Bacheller
182 “Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
183 “Drieser, Theodore” should read Dreiser
183 “Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
183 “(The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.)” has an extra . before the )
186 “Hardy, Arthur Sherborne” should read Sherburne
The following words were inconsistently capitalized:
One-Act / One-act Present-Day / Present-day Who’s Who In America / Who’s Who in America
The following word was inconsistently spelled:
Björkman / Bjorkman
Other inconsistencies:
ff. used in page references is sometimes closed up with the page numbers and sometimes spaced.