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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The author of THE VIRGINIAN,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Owen Wister, Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East (Hardcover)
Owen Wister was born in Philadelphia into elite society, went to Harvard where he studied music and the law, travelled out West because of ill health, fell in love with Wyoming and began writing short stories with western themes. In 1902 he published THE VIRGINIAN, which was a huge success, selling over a million copies. Although he wrote many other books after that, including fiction, history, and biography, none came even close to the success of THE VIRGINIAN.
Basically he was a reactionary, despising progress, and a blatant racist (LADY BALTIMORE, his second best-know work of fiction, is rife with racist ideas). But he was friends with everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and Henry James to Hemingway. Payne's biography is a good one and will probably become definitive. Wister today is thought of as pretty much a one-shot wonder, associated totally and only with THE VIRGINIAN. |
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Owen Wister, Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East by Darwin Payne (Hardcover - Oct. 1985)
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