Born at Anita, Iowa, 1881. A.B., Williams, 1903; A.M., Harvard, 1904; Ph.D., 1906. Taught English at Northwestern University, 1906-11; professor at the University of Illinois since 1911. a.s.sociate editor of the _Cambridge History of American Literature_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
On Contemporary Literature. 1917.
American and Allied Ideals. 1918.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Op. 64 ("18): 270 (portrait).
Lamp, 29 ("04): 451, 452 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917.
+Upton Sinclair+--novelist.
Born at Baltimore, 1878. A.B., College of the City of New York, 1897. Did graduate work for four years at Columbia. a.s.sisted in the government investigation of the Chicago stockyards, 1906 (cf. _The Jungle_).
Socialist. Founded the Helicon Hall communistic colony at Englewood, New Jersey, 1906-7, and the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
King Midas. 1901.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling. 1903. (Autobiographical.) *The Jungle. 1906.
The Metropolis. 1908.
The Money-changers. 1908.
Plays of Protest. 1911.
Sylvia. 1913.
Sylvia"s Marriage. 1914.
The Cry for Justice. 1915. (Anthology.) King Coal, a Novel of the Colorado Strike. 1917.
Jimmie Higgins. 1919.
*The Bra.s.s Check. 1919. (Arraignment of commercialized newspapers and plea for an endowed newspaper.) 100%; the Story of a Patriot. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Arena, 35 ("06): 187 (portrait).
Ath. 1912, 1: 558; 2: 247.
Bookm. 23 ("06): 130 (portrait), 195, 244, 584; 24 ("07): 2, 443 (portrait).
Chaut. 64 ("11): 175 (portrait).
Cur. Lit. 41 ("06): 3 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 66 ("19): 386; 68 ("20): 669 (portrait).
Freeman, 4 ("21): 258, 262.
Ind. 57 ("04): 1133 (portrait); 62 ("07): 711; 71 ("11): 326.
Nation, 113 ("21): 347.
New Statesman, 1 ("13): 209.
Review, 4 ("21): 128.
R. of Rs. 31 ("05): 117; 33 ("06): 760; 34 ("06): 6. (Portraits.) Spec. 96 ("06): 793; 99 ("07): 231.
World Today, 11 ("06): 676; 21 ("11): 1197. (Portraits.)
+Elsie Singmaster (Mrs. Harold Lewars)+--novelist.
Born at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, 1879. A.B., Radcliffe, 1909; Litt. D., Pennsylvania College, 1916. Her work deals with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gettysburg--Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath. 1913.
Katy Gaumer. 1914.
Emmeline. 1916.
Basil Everman. 1920.
John Baring"s House. 1920.
Ellen Levis. 1921.
Bennett Malin. 1922.
For reviews, see _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1920.
+Logan Pearsall Smith+--essayist.
American scholar living in England. Belongs to literature through his _Trivia_--short prose poems, which suggest comparison with similar experiments by Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and Marcel Schwob.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Youth of Parna.s.sus and Other Stories. 1895.
Trivia. 1902. (Revised ed., 1918.) More Trivia. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. (Lond.) 55 ("18): 68.
Cur. Op. 64 ("18): 123 (portrait).
Nation (Lond.), 26 ("19): 398.
New Statesman, 10 ("17-"18): 233; 11 ("18): 134.
Spec. 124 ("20): 50.
+Wilbur Daniel Steele+--novelist, short-story writer.
Born at Greensboro, North Carolina, 1886. A.B., University of Denver, 1907. Studied art in Boston, Paris, and New York, 1907-10.