Contemporary American Literature Part 22

Egoist, 3 ('16): 159.

Ind. 71 ('11): 1267 (portrait).

Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 403.

Nation, 101 ('15): 648 (Stuart P. Sherman); 112 ('21): 400. (Carl Van Doren.) New Repub. 2 ('15): supp. Apr. 17, Pt. II, p. 7.

No. Am. 207 ('18): 902.

Review, 2 ('20): 380. (Paul Elmer More.) R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 242 (portrait).

Spec. 118 ('17): 139.

+William Edward Burghardt Du Bois+--man of letters.

Born at Great Barrington, Ma.s.sachusetts, 1865. Of negro descent but with large admixture of white blood. A.B., Fisk University, 1888; Harvard, 1890; A.M., 1891; Ph.D., 1895. Studied at the University of Berlin.

Professor of economics and history, Atlanta University, 1896-1910.

Director of publicity of the National a.s.sociation for the Advancement of Colored People and editor of the _Crisis_, 1910--.

Mr. Du Bois is a distinguished economist and primarily a propagandist for the equal rights and education of the negro, but he belongs to literature as the author of _Darkwater_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Souls of Black Folk. 1903.

John Brown. 1909.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece. 1911.

*Darkwater. 1920. (Stories, sketches, essays.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Am. M. 66 ('08): May, pp. 61 (portrait), 65.

Freeman, 1 ('20): 95.

Lit. Digest, 65 ('20): May 1, p. 86.

Nation, 110 ('20): 726.

New Repub. 22 ('20): 189.

World Today, 12 ('07): 6 (portrait).

World's Work, 41 ('20): 159 (portrait).

+Finley Peter Dunne+--humorist.

Born at Chicago, 1867. Educated in Chicago public schools. Began newspaper work as reporter, 1885. On _Chicago Evening Post_ and _Chicago Times Herald_, 1892-7. Editor of the _Chicago Journal_, 1897-1900. Since 1900 has lived and worked in New York.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War. 1898.

Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen. 1899.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy. 1900.

Mr. Dooley's Opinions. 1901.

Observations by Mr. Dooley. 1902.

Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. 1906.

Mr. Dooley Says. 1910.

Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Am. M. 62 ('06): 571 (portrait); 65 ('07): 173.

Bookm. 51 ('20): 674.

Cent. 63 ('01): 63 (portrait).

Cur. Lit. 38 ('05): 29 (portrait).

Harp. W. 47 ('03): 331 (portrait), 346.

Ind. 62 ('07): 741 (portrait).

Lit. Digest, 44 ('12): 427 (portrait).

No. Am. 176 ('03): 743. (Howells.) New Repub. 20 ('19): 235.

Outlook, 123 ('19): 94 (portrait).

Spec. 90 ('03): 258; 125 ('20): 146.

+Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)+--writer.

Born at Redwood Falls, Minnesota, 1858, of Santee Sioux ancestry, his father being a full-blood Indian, and his mother a half-breed. B.S., Dartmouth, 1887; M.D., Boston University, 1890. Government physician, Pine Ridge Agency, 1890-3. Indian secretary, Y.M.C.A., 1894-7. Attorney for Santee Sioux at Was.h.i.+ngton, 1897-1900. Government physician, Crow Creek, South Dakota, 1900-3. Appointed to revise Sioux family names, 1903-9.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Indian Boyhood. 1902.

Old Indian Days. 1907.

The Soul of the Indian. 1911.

The Indian Today. 1915.

From the Deep Woods to Civilization. 1916.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bk. Buyer, 24 ('02): 21 (portrait).

Chaut. 35 ('02): 335 (portrait), 339.

Outlook, 65 ('00): 83 (portrait).

R. of Rs. 33 ('06): 700 (portrait), 703.

+Max Eastman+--poet, essayist, critic.

Born at Canandaigua, New York, 1883. Both his parents were Congregationalist preachers. A.B., Williams College, 1905. From 1907 to 1911, a.s.sociate in philosophy at Columbia. In 1911, began to give his entire time to studying and writing about the problems of economic inequality. In 1913, became editor of _The Ma.s.ses_, a periodical which voiced his theories, and which in 1917 became _The Liberator_.

In his _Enjoyment of Poetry_, Mr. Eastman shows in an interesting way how poetry can be made to contribute to the enrichment of life.