Chapter VIII: Part TWO

A BRIEF
WHO’S WHO
OF WRITERS
PARTICULARLY IDENTIFIED
WITH
THE BORZOI

A BRIEF WHO’S WHO

AIKEN, Conrad: Author “Scepticisms,”; _b._ 1889, Savannah, Ga. _m._
_Educ._: Harvard (1912). Travelled extensively, living at
different times in London, Rome and Windermere.

ALARCÓN, Pedro A. de: Author “The Three-Cornered Hat”; _b._ 10
March, 1833, at Guadix, Prov. of Granada, Spain, _m._ Doña Paulina
Contrera de Reyes, 1866. _Educ._: Guadix Seminary. Had a varied
career as writer, soldier and politician. Died at Madrid, 19 July,
1891.

ANTONELLI, Etienne: Author “Bolshevik Russia”; _b._ France, 1879.
When the war broke out was professor of political economy at the
University of Poitiers. Wounded and decorated with Croix de
Guerre, May, 1915. Sent to Russia on his recovery as military
attaché at French Embassy.

BAROJA, Pío: Author “Youth and Egolatry”; _b._ San Sebastian, 28
Dec. 1872. _Educ._: San Sebastian schools; Institute of Pamplona;
studied medicine at Valencia; graduated as M. D. from University
of Madrid, 1893. Practised medicine at Cestona for two years. Went
to Madrid where he ran a bakery for six years. Since then he has
been writing and publishing regularly.

BEERBOHM, Max: Author “Seven Men”; _b._ London, 24 Aug. 1872. _m._
Florence Kahn, of Memphis, Tennessee. _Educ._: Charterhouse;
Merton Coll. Oxford. Member of Academic Committee. Since 1901
there have been six exhibitions of his drawings. Lives in Italy.

BODENHEIM, Maxwell: Author “Advice”; _b._ Natchez, Miss., 1892.
_Educ._: Memphis, Tenn. Schools. Served three years in U. S.
Regular Army, and studied law and art for a time in Chicago. Wrote
verse for six years before having any accepted by the magazines.

BORDEN, Mary: Author “The Romantic Woman”; _b._ Chicago, Ill. _m._
1st., Captain Turner of the British Army; 2nd., General Edward
Lewis Spiers of the British Army, March, 1918. During the war she
equipped at her own expense the first mobile field hospital of the
French Army, for which she was decorated with the Legion of Honor.
Resides in Paris.

BRAGDON, Claude Fayette: Author “Architecture and Democracy”; _b._
Oberlin, O., Aug. 1, 1866. _Educ._: Oswego High School;
architectural apprentice in offices of Bruce Price, N. Y., and
Green and Wicks, Buffalo; _m._ Member N. Y. Architects’ League.
Lives in Rochester, N. Y.

BRIDGES, Robert: Author “October”; Poet-Laureate since 1913; _b._ 23
Oct. 1844, _m._ 3 Sept. 1884, Monica, _e. d._ of Alfred
Waterhouse, R. A.; one _s._ two _d._ _Educ._: Eton; Corpus Christi
Coll. Oxford (Hon. Fell.) After leaving Oxford travelled; then
studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s, London; retired 1882.

BYNNER, Witter: Author “A Canticle of Pan”; _b._ Brooklyn, N. Y.,
1881. _Educ._: Harvard (1902). One time Assistant editor
_McClure’s Magazine_ and Literary Advisor McClure, Phillips and
Co.

CATHER, Willa Sibert: Author “Youth and the Bright Medusa”; _b._
Winchester, Va., Dec. 7, 1875. _Educ._: Univ. of Nebraska,
graduating, 1895. Staff of Pittsburgh _Daily Leader_, 1897–01;
asso. editor _McClure’s Magazine_, 1906–12.

CHENEY, Sheldon: Author “The Art Theatre.” _b._ Berkeley,
California, 29 June, 1886. _m._ Maud Meaurice Turner, of Berkeley,
1910. Three children. _Educ._: University of California, A. B.
1908. In business 1908–11, teaching and writing 1911–16, editorial
and critical work 1916–20. Editor _Theatre Arts Magazine_.

DAVIES, William Henry: Author “The Autobiography of a Supertramp”;
_b._ 20 April 1870, Newport, Mon.; of Welsh parents. _Educ._:
picked up knowledge among tramps in America, on cattle boats, and
in the common lodging-houses in England. Apprenticed to the
picture frame making; left England when apprenticeship closed and
tramped in America for six years; came back to England and lived
in common lodging-houses in London, making several trips as pedlar
of laces, pins and needles; sometimes varied this life by singing
hymns in the street; after eight years of this published book of
poems; became a poet at 34.

DAWSON SCOTT, C. A.: Author “The Rolling Stone”; _b._ Dolwich near
London. _Educ._: Anglo-German College in Camberwell. _m._ Major H.
F. N. Scott. Three children. Founded corps to prepare women to
take men’s places during war. Later founded Tomorrow Club of which
she is now Lecture Secretary.

DAY, Clarence, Jr.: Author “This Simian World”; _b._ New York City,
1874. _Educ._: St. Paul’s School (New Hampshire) and Yale. Has
lived at various health resorts and on ranches in the West, has
been a member of the New York Stock Exchange and has served as an
Enlisted man in the U. S. Navy. Not married. Lives in New York.

DE LA MARE, Walter: Author “The Three Mulla Mulgars”; _b._ 1873,
lives in England.

DELL, Floyd: Author “Mooncalf”; _b._ Barry, Ill., 1887. _Educ._:
Left school at age of 16 to work in factory; four years course in
journalism in a middle western town. Was for some years Literary
Editor of Chicago _Evening Post_, later Literary Editor of _The
Masses_, and now conducts the monthly literary department of _The
Liberator_ of which he is an associate editor.

EASTON, Dorothy: Author “The Golden Bird”; _b._ London, 1889.
_Educ._: England, France and Germany. Contributor to _Manchester
Guardian_, _The Nation_ (London), etc.

ELIOT, Thomas Stearns: Author “Poems”; _b._ St. Louis, Mo., 1888.
_Educ._: Harvard (A. B. 1909; M. A. 1910); studied subsequently at
the Sorbonne, Harvard Graduate School, and at Merton College,
Oxford. Master at Highgate School, London, and lecturer under both
the Oxford and London University Extension Systems. 1917–19,
Assistant Editor of _Egoist_.

EVARTS, Hal G.: Author “The Cross Pull”; _b._ Topeka, Kansas, 1887.
Left school to put in winter trapping. _m._ One son. Surveyed in
Indian Territory; summered three years in Colorado Rustic Mountain
landscaping; intervening winters with bond firms and trust
company; two years real estate; four in retail shoe business then
went back to Wyoming hills; three years fur farming.

FLETCHER, J. S.: Author “The Middle Temple Murder”; _b._ Halifax,
1863. _m._ 1884, Annie, _d._ of late James Harrison; two _s._
_Educ._: Silcoates School and privately. Special correspondent for
_Leeds Mercury_ on several occasions; assistant leader writer for
same journal, 1893–98; special correspondent for Yorkshire _Post_
at Coronation ceremonies, 1902.

FOLLETT, Wilson: Author “The Modern Novel”; _b._ North Attleborough,
Massachusetts, 21 March, 1887; _Educ._: A. B. Harvard, 1909; _m._
Helen Thomas, 10 June, 1913. Has taught English at Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas, Dartmouth College, Brown
University, and Radcliffe College.

FORSTER, Edward Morgan: Author “Where Angels Fear to Tread”; _b._
1879. _Educ._: Tonbridge (day boy); King’s Coll., Cambridge.
_Clubs_: Savile, Oxford and Cambridge Musical.

FRANKAU, Gilbert: Author “Peter Jameson”; _b._ 21 April 1884;
_Educ._: Eton. Entered his father’s business, 1904; commenced
writing 1910; left England and travelled around the world,
1912–14; first commission 9th E. Surrey Regt. Oct. 1914;
transferred to R. F. A. March 1915; appointed Adjutant to his
Brigade, and proceeded overseas in that capacity; fought at Loos,
Ypres, the Somme; promoted Staff Captain for special duty in
Italy, Oct. 1916; invalided from the Service and granted rank of
Captain, Feb. 1918.

GIBRAN, Kahlil: Author “The Forerunner”; _b._ 1883 Mt. Lebanon,
Syria. _Educ._: Beyrout College, Al-Ki-Hikmat. Studied art in
Paris. Exhibition of paintings at Paris Salon, New York, Boston.
Has had ten volumes prose and poetry in Arabic published in last
ten years; several of them translated into Spanish, French,
German, English. Now living in New York.

GRANT WATSON, E. L.: Author “Deliverance”; _b._ Steynes, N. London,
1885. _m._ Katharane Hannay, 1919. _Educ._: Bedales School,
Trinity College, Cambridge. 1st Class Nat. Science tripos 1906.
Ethnological Expedition N. W. Australia 1910–12.

HERBERT, A. P.: Author “The Secret Battle”; _Educ._: Winchester and
New College, Oxford. Enlisted in the R. N. V. R. as Ordinary
Seaman, Aug. 1914. Commissioned March 1915 and went with Hawke
Batt’n., Royal Naval Division to Gallipoli. Invalided home, Aug.,
same year. Served in France. Wounded and sent home. Served, 1918
on Naval Staff at Admiralty.

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph: Author “San Cristobal de la Habana”; _b._
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 15, 1880; _Educ._: short period at a
Quaker school, Philadelphia, and at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts; _m._ Dorothy Hemphill, of West Chester, Pa., 1907.

HIGHAM, Charles Frederick: Author “Looking Forward”; M. P. _b._
1876; _Educ._: St. Albans. Assistant Organizer with Mr. Kennedy
Jones, M. P., of the Victory War Loan Campaign of 1917; Freeman of
the City of London; Member of the Guild of Gold & Silver Wyre
Workers. _Clubs_: Carlton, 1900, National Sporting, Royal
Automobile, Aldwych, etc.

HOOKER, Forrestine C.: Author “The Long Dim Trail”; _b._
Philadelphia. Raised in 10th U. S. Cavalry during frontier service
against Indians; _m._ E. R. Hooker. Staff of Los Angeles
_Examiner_. Secretary of Los Angeles Humane Society for Children.
Investigator on District Attorney’s Staff. Secretary of Los
Angeles Auxiliary of League of American Pen Women.

HOWE, Edgar Watson: Author “The Anthology of Another Town”; _b._
Treaty, Ind., May 3, 1854; _Educ._: Common schools in Missouri.
Started to work in printing office at age of 12; _m._ Clara L.
Frank of Falls City, Neb, 1875. Published the _Golden Globe_ at
Golden, Colo., at age of 19; editor and proprietor of Atchison
_Daily Globe_, 1877–1911; editor and publisher of _E. W. Howe’s
Monthly_ since Jan., 1911.

KROPOTKIN, P.: Author “Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature”;
_b._ 9 Dec. 1842. _Educ._: Corps of Pages, Petrograd 1857–62,
Petrograd Univ. 1869–73. Gold medal Russ. Geographic Soc. for
journey across Manchuria 1864. Explored glacial deposits Finland
and Sweden 1871. Arrested for labour agitation 1874; confined in
St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress; escaped 1876. Founded _Le
Revolte_ at Geneva; Expelled from Switzerland 1881; sentenced at
Lyons to 5 yrs. imprisonment, 1883; Liberated 1886. Lived in
England till Russian Revolution of 1917.

McCLURE, John: Author “Airs and Ballads”; _b._ Ardmore, Oklahoma, 19
Dec. 1893. _Educ._: University of Oklahoma; in Paris, 1913–14.
Member of the national Hobo College fraternity, “Quo Vadis”; has
tramped about two thousand miles in the South-west. Runs The Olde
Bookshop in New Orleans.

MACKAYE, Percy: Author “Rip Van Winkle”; _b._ New York, 16 March
1875. _Educ._: Harvard A. B., Hon. M. A. Dartmouth, Univ. of
Leipzig; _m._ Marion H. Morse of Cambridge 1898. Travelled in
Europe 1898–1900, taught private school New York 1900–1904,
lectured Harvard, Yale, Columbia on theatre 1904–1919.

MAUGHAM, William Somerset: Author “The Land of the Blessed Virgin”;
_b._ 1874; m. Syrie Barnado; one _d._ _Educ._: King’s School,
Canterbury, Heidelberg University, St. Thomas’s Hospital.

MENCKEN, Henry Louis: Author “Prejudices”; _b._ Baltimore, Md.,
Sept. 12, 1880. _Educ._: Balt. Poly. Inst., graduating 1896.
Unmarried. Reporter, 1899, city editor, 1903–5, Baltimore _Morning
Herald_; editor _Evening Herald_, 1905; on staff Baltimore _Sun_,
1906–17; literary critic _Smart Set_, 1908, and editor (with
George Jean Nathan) since 1914. War correspondent in Germany and
Russia in 1917.

MILNE, Alan Alexander: Author “First Plays”; _b._ 18 Jan. 1882;
assistant editor of _Punch_ 1906–14; Royal Warwickshire Regt.,
Feb. 1915–19; _m._ Dorothy, _d._ of Martin de Selincourt. _Educ._:
Westminster; Trinity College, Cambridge. Edited _The Granta_,
1902; started journalism in London, 1903.

NATHAN, George Jean: Author “Comedians All”; _b._ Fort Wayne, Ind.,
Feb. 15, 1882; _Educ._: Cornell University, graduating 1904.
Unmarried. Editorial staff N. Y. _Herald_, 1904–6; dramatic critic
and asso. editor _Bohemian Magazine_ and _Outing_, 1906–8, also
_Burr McIntosh Monthly_, 1908; dramatic critic for Phila. _North
American_, McClure’s Syndicate and Cleveland _Leader_ since 1912;
dramatic critic _Puck_ (with James Huneker) 1915–16; editor _Smart
Set_ (with H. L. Mencken) since 1914.

NYBURG, Sidney: Author “The Gate of Ivory” etc.; _b._ Baltimore,
Md., Dec. 8, 1880; _Educ._: Baltimore City College; LL. B. Univ.
of Maryland, graduating 1901. _m._ Jan. 9, 1907. Practised law in
Baltimore since 1902.

OPPENHEIM, James: Author “The Book of Self”; _b._ St. Paul, Minn. 24
May, 1882. _Educ._: Two years of special courses at Columbia
University. Assistant editor _Cosmopolitan Magazine_; later taught
in an East Side Technical school. At age of 24 he began
free-lancing. Was editor of _The Seven Arts_.

PERTWEE, Roland: _b._ Brighton, 15th May 1885; _m._ Advice Scholtz
of Capetown, South Africa, 1910. _Educ._: London and Paris.
Started as a portrait painter; abandoned painting in favour of the
stage; left stage and became a writer in 1914. Served in Heavy
Artillery Mechanical Transport in France during war.

RUSSELL, John: Author “The Red Mark”; _b._ Davenport, Iowa, 1885;
son Charles Edward Russell. _Educ._: Brooklyn schools and
North-Western University; much foreign travel. Reporter N. Y.
_Herald_ and special correspondent Panama and Peru. Now lives in
New York.

SHAFER, Don Cameron: Author “Barent Creighton”; _b._ Charlotteville,
N. Y., Oct. 7, 1881; _Educ._: Public Schools; _m._ Janeth E.
Mitchell of Roxbury, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1910. Learned printer’s
trade; reporter Schenectady _Union_, 1903; later, special writer
for N. Y. _World_, _Sun_, _Press_ and _Times_; also contributor to
magazines. Advertising manager for General Electric Co.

SITWELL, Osbert: Author “Argonaut and Juggernaut”; _b._ London, 6
Dec. 1892. _Educ._: Eton. Served in France as Officer in the
Grenadier Guards 1914–15–16.

SQUIRE, John Collings: Author “Books in General”; _b._ Plymouth, 2
April 1884; _m._, 1908, Eileen H. A., _d._ of Rev. A. Anstruther
Wilkinson; three _s._ _Educ._: Bundell’s; St. John’s College,
Cambridge (Historical Scholar, 1903; B. A. 1908; M. A. 1919);
Literary Editor _New Statesman_ since 1913; Acting Editor,
1917–19; contested Cambridge University (Lab), 1919. Editor the
London _Mercury_, since 1919.

TIETJENS, Eunice (née Hammond): Author “Body and Raiment”; _b._
Chicago, Ill., 29 July, 1884. _Educ._: France, Switzerland and
Germany. Has travelled extensively in all parts of the world. Two
years on the staff of _Poetry_ in Chicago, the second as Associate
Editor. For one year war correspondent in Paris for Chicago _Daily
News_; _m._ 2nd Cloyd Head, Chicago, 1920.

TOMLINSON, H. M.: Author “Old Junk”; _b._ 1873. Joined the editorial
staff of the _Morning Leader_, 1904, and the _Daily News_ when the
two papers amalgamated; War Correspondent in Belgium and France
from Aug. 1914, and an Official Correspondent at General
Headquarters of the British Armies in France, 1915–17. Assistant
Editor _The Nation_ (London) since 1917.

TRIDON, André: Author “Psychoanalysis and Behaviour”; _b._ France 8
May, 1877. _Educ._: Paris, Clermont, Heidelberg and New York; _m._
1903. Practising analyst in New York. First psychoanalyst in U. S.
to deliver lectures on psychoanalysis open to the general public.

TURNER, George Kibbe: Author “Hagar’s Hoard”; _b._ Quincy, Ill., 23
Mar. 1869. _Educ._: Williams College, graduating, 1890; _m._ Julia
Hawks Patchen of Bennington, Vt., Oct. 19, 1892. Began newspaper
work 1891. Editor and staff writer on _McClure’s Magazine_,
1906–17.

VAN VECHTEN, Carl: Author “The Tiger in the House”; _b._ Cedar
Rapids, Iowa 17 June, 1880; _m._ Fania Marinoff. Ass’t Musical
critic New York _Times_ 1906–7, Paris correspondent same 1908–9,
Editor program notes Symphony Society, New York 1910–11, Dramatic
critic New York _Press_ 1913–14.

VAN WESEP, Hendrikus Boeve: Author “The Control of Ideals”; _b._ 30
October, 1888, Amsterdam, Holland. Moved as a child to one of the
Pioneer Dutch settlements in the Middle West. _Educ._: Calvin
College Preparatory School, Grand Rapids, Michigan; University of
Michigan. Chief study philosophy; grad. 1912. Graduate work at
Princeton University; Ph.D. 1917, in ethics and Greek Philosophy.
Now employed by the Rockefeller Foundation for research work in
philanthropic, public health, and sociological problems; _m._
Aleida Sophia van Vessem, 1917.

WALEY, Arthur David: Author “More Translations from the Chinese”;
_b._ Tunbridge Wells, 1889. _Educ._: Rugby and Kings’ College,
Cambridge. Travelled in France, Germany and Spain. Entered Print
Room of the British Museum in 1913. In the same year became
assistant of Mr. Laurence Binyon, head of the oriental Section of
the Print Room. Lives in Cartwright Gardens, London. Has never
been outside Europe, but learnt Chinese and Japanese from native
teachers in London.

WALLAS, Graham: Author “The Life of Francis Place”; _b._ Sunderland,
31 May 1858; _m._ 1897, Ada Radford; one _d._ _Educ._: Shrewsbury
School, 1871–77; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1877–81; Lecturer
at London School of Economics since 1895; University Professor in
Political Science, 1914; Lowell Lecturer, 1914.

WILKINSON, Louis Umfreville: Author “Brute Gods”; _b._ Aldeburgh,
Suffolk, England, 17 Dec. 1881; son of late Rev. W. G. Wilkinson,
formerly Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. _Educ._: Radley; St.
John’s College, Cambridge; M.A. Cantab; Litt.D., St. John’s
College, Annapolis; _m._ 1912, Frances Josefa Gregg; one _s._ one
_d._

WILLIAMS, James Mickel: Author “The Foundations of Social Science”;
_b._ Waterville, N. Y., 1876. _Educ._: A.B. Brown University 1898;
B.D. Union Theolo. Sem., 1901; Ph.D. Columbia, 1906; _m._ Lucinda
Chamberlain Noyes of Rochester, N. Y., 1913. Lecturer on Economics
Vassar 1907–8; prof. econ. and soc. Hobart College 1908–1920.

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Footnote 1:

This paper appeared in “Land and Water” [London], but has never before
been published in the United States.

Footnote 2:

See Bibliography.

Footnote 3:

This paper appeared in _The Clarion_ [London] but has never before
been published in the United States.