American writer, born at Crawfordsville, IN, on the 9th of December 1866. He was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis, and for many years he was engaged in journalism in that city. His works include The Hoosiers (1900); The Main Chance (1903); Zelda Damaron (1904); The House of a Thousand Candles (1905); The Port of Missing Men (1907); A Hoosier Chronicle (1912); The Provincial American (1912); Otherwise Phyllis (1913); The Madness of May (1917); The Valley of Democracy (1918); Lady Larkspur (1919); Blacksheep! Blacksheep! (1920); and The Man in the Street (1921). See also The Proof of the Pudding.
