American author, born in Cambridge, MA, on the 26th of April 1868. He was educated at the Cambridge Latin school and at Harvard University (A.B. 1890). He was appointed instructor in rhetoric at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1890 and three years later accepted a similar position at the university of Chicago. At the latter place, passing through the various stages of promotion, he became professor of English in 1905. His novels and short stories deal with the complicated problems of modern life in realistic fashion. They include The Man Who Wins (1895); Literary Love Letters and Other Stories (1897); Love’s Dilemmas (1898); The Gospel of Freedom (1898); The Web of Life (1900); The Real World (1901); Their Child (1903); The Common Lot (1904); The Memoirs of an American Citizen (1905); The Master of the Inn (1908); Together (1908); A Life for a Life (1910); The Healer (1911); One Woman’s Life (1913); His Great Adventure (1913); Clark’s Field (1914); The World Decision (1916) and The Conscript Mother (1916). He was also the author of Composition and Rhetoric (1899, with L. T. Damon). He was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
