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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Owen Wister (1860–1938)

Wister, Owen. An American author and lawyer; born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1860; died in 1938. Besides being a frequent contributor of prose and verse to magazines, he wrote: ‘The Dragon of Wantley, His Tail’ (1892); ‘Red Men and White’ (1896); ‘Lin McLean’ (1898); ‘The Jimmy John Boss’ (1900); ‘U. S. Grant, a Biography’ (1900); ‘The Virginian’ (1902); ‘Mother’; ‘The Seven Ages of Washington’; ‘Philosophy 4’; ‘Lady Baltimore’; ‘Members of the Family’ (1911); ‘The Pentecost of Calamity’ (1915). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).