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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780810317277 , 0810317273

Series Statement: Gale Literature Resource Center

Content: Contains entries on the history and character of American publishers of literature in book format, concentrating on trade publishing founded prior to 1900.

Note: Part 1 -- Abbey Press -- J.S. and C. Adams -- Advance Publishing Company -- Robert Aitken -- John B. Alden -- Alden, Beardsley and Company -- Charles Wesley Alexander -- John Allen and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- American News Company -- American Publishing Company -- American Stationers' Company -- American Sunday-School Union - American Temperance Union -- American Tract Society -- Silas Andrus and Son -- Henry F. Anners -- D. Appleton and Company -- The Arena Publishing Company -- Authors' Publishing Company -- John Babcock -- Richard G. Badgera nd Company -- Francis Bailey -- The Baker and Taylor Company -- Walter H. Baker Company ("Baker's Plays") -- A. L. Bancroft and Company -- E.E. Barclay and Company --- C.W. Bardeen -- A.S. Barnes and Company -- Beacon Press -- Beadle and Adams -- Belford, Clarke and Company -- Robert Bell -- Benziger Brother -- R. G. Berford Company - Drexel Biddle - John Bioren - The Blakiston Company - Blelock and Company - E. Bliss and E. White - Robert Bonner's Sons - Book Supply Company - Bowen-Merrill Company - John Bradburn - Ira Bradley and Company - J.W. Bradley and Company - Frederic A. Brady - Charles H. Brainard - Brentano's - Job Buffum - Bunce and Brother - Burgess, Stringer and Company - A.L. Burt Company - E.H. Butler and Company - H.M. Caldwell Company - Cambridge Press - M. Carey and Company -- Carey and Hart - G.W. Carleton - Robert Carter and Brothers - Carter and Hendee - Cassell Publishing Company - The Century Company - William Charles - The Christian Publishing Company - Robert Clarke and Brothers - Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger - P.F. Collier - Collin and Small - Isaac Collins - S. Collins - S. Colman - W.B. Conkey Company -- John Conrad and Company - The Continental Publishing Company - David C. Cook Publishing Company - Increase Cooke, and Company -George Coolidge - Copeland and Day - N. Coverly - Thomas Y. Crowell Company - cummings and Hilliard - Peter F. Cunningham - Cupples, Upham and Company - William S. Damrell - Mahlon Daly - T.S. Denison and Company - Derby and Miller - Robert M. DeWitt Publisher - DeWolfe, Fiske and Company - Dick and Fitzgerald - Charles T. Dillingham Company - The G.W.Dillingham Company - Dix, Edwards and Company - Dodd, Mead and Company - Dodge Publishing Company - Patrick Donahoe - R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company - Donohue and Henneberry -M. Doolady - Doubleday and Company - William Doxey - The Dramatic Publishing Company - Edward Dunigan and Brother - William Durrell - E.P. Dutton and Company - Duyckinck and Company - James H. Earle and Company - The Editor Publishing Company - Paul Elder and Company - Elliott, Thomes and Talbot - The George H. Ellis Company - Ess Ess Publishing Company - Estes and Lauriat - R.F.Fenno and Company - E. Ferret and Company - Fetridge and Company - Fields, Osgood and Company - John West Folsom - Forbes and Company - J.B. Ford and Company-Fords, Howard, and Hulbert - Fowler and Wells Company - Richard K. Fox - C.S. Francis - James French - Samuel French - Hugh Gaine -Charles Gaylord - Samuel Gerrish - William F. Gill Company - W. and J. Gilman - F. Gleason's Publishing Hall - Godey and McMichael - S.G. Goodrich - C.E. Goodspeed and Company - William H. Graham - T. and S. Green -- Timothy Green - Benjamin H. Greene - S.C. Griggs and Company - Grosset and Dunlap - E.J. Hale and Son - Samuel Hall - Harper and Brothers - James P. Harrison Company -Willlis P. Hazard - B. Herder Book Company - E.R. Herrick and Company - George M. Hill Coompany - Hilliard, Gray and Company - Hilton and Company - Hogan and Thompson - Henry Holt and Company - Home Publishing Company -- E. and E. Hosford - Hotchkiss and Company - Houghton Mifflin Company - Henry Hoyt - Hudson and Goodwin - Hurd and Houghtn - Hurst and Company - M.J. Ivers and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - U.P. James - John P. Jewett and Company -The Jewish Publication Society - Benjamin, Jacob, and Robert Johnson - Jacob Johnson and Company - Jone's Publishing House - Orange Judd Publishing Company - W.B. Keen, Cooke and Company - Kelly, Piet and Company - P.J. Kenedy and Sons - Keppler and Schwarzmann - Charles H. Kerr and Company - Key and Biddle - Kiggins and Kellogg - Solomon King - Laird and Lee - Lamson, Wolffe and Company - the John Lane Company - W.A. Leary and Company - Leavitt and Allen - Lee and Shepard - The Frank Leslie Publishing House - Lilly, Wait and Company - H. Long and Brother -Longmans, Green and Company -- D. Longworth - A.K. Loring - D. Lothrop and Company - John W. Lovell Company - Levell, Coryell and Company - Fielding Lucas, Jr. -The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company - The Macmillian Company - Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb - William S. Martien - Mason Brothers -- H. Maxwell - A.C. McClurg and Company - The David McKay Company - McLoughlin Brothers - The Merriam Company - Merrill and Baker - The Mershon Company - J. Metcalf - The Methodist Book Concern - James Miller - Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Company - John P. Morton and Company - George Munro - Norman L. Munro - James Munroe and Company - Monroe and Francis - Joel Munsell - Frank A. Munsell - Frank A. Munsey and Company - John Murphy and Company - Benjamin B. Musey and Company. , Part 2 -- Nafis and Cornish - Joseph Nancrede - The Neale Publishing Company - F. Tennyson Neely - Thomas Nelson and Sons - Mark Newman - J .S. Ogilvie and Company - Old Franklin Publishing House - James R. Osgood and Company - Patrick O'Shea - Otis, Broaders and Company - John Owen - L.C. Page and Company - William Parks - Peter Paul Book Company - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - H.B. Pearson - H.C.Peck and Theo. Bliss - Penn Publishing Company - T.B. Peterson and Brothers - Philips, Sampson and Company - Elihu Phinney - Pictorial Printing Company - Pollard and Moss - Porter and Coates - John E. Potter and Company - G.P. Putnam's Sons - The Queen City Publishing House - Rand, Avery and Company - Rand McNally and Company - Anson D.F. Randolph - Henry Ranlet - J.S. Redfield - James Redpath - Fleming H. Revell Company - John C. Riker - Riverside Press - Roberts Brothers - A.M. Robertson and Company - A. Roman and Company - The Roycroft Printing Shop -Rudd and Carleton - B.B. Russell and Son - D. and J. Sadlier and Company - Charles Scribner's Sons - Sheldon and Company - Shepard, Clark and Brown - Sidney's Press - Sierra Club Books - Small, Maynard and Company - J. Stilman Smith and Company - W.B. Smith and Company - Star Spangled Banner Office - Ashbel Stoddard - Frederick A. Stokes Company - Herbert S. Stone and Company - Stone and Kimball - Stratton and Barnard - Street and Smith - Stringer and Townsend - Henry A. Sumner -T.and J. Swords and Company - J. Selwin Tait and Sons - William Taylor and Company - Isaiah Thomas - Ticknor and Fields - J.E. Tilton and Company - Abel Tompkins - Frank Tousey - The Transatlantic Publish Company - John F. Trow and Company - United States Book Company - Waite, Peirce and Company - Walker, Evans, and Cogswell Company - Fredrick Warne and Company - Way and Williams - Charles L. Webster and Company - Ther Werner Company - West and Johnston -- William White and Company - W.A. Wilde Company - John Wiley and Sons - L. Willard - A. Williams and Company - Williams Brothers - J. Winchester - John C. Winston Company - Samuel Wood - R. Worthington and Company - William Young - G.B. Zieber and Company. , Mode of access: Internet.

Language: English

URL: Available via Gale Literature Resource Center

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780810317277 , 0810317273

Series Statement: Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 49

Content: Contains entries on the history and character of American publishers of literature in book format, concentrating on trade publishing founded prior to 1900.

Note: Part 1 -- Abbey Press -- J.S. and C. Adams -- Advance Publishing Company -- Robert Aitken -- John B. Alden -- Alden, Beardsley and Company -- Charles Wesley Alexander -- John Allen and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- American News Company -- American Publishing Company -- American Stationers' Company -- American Sunday-School Union - American Temperance Union -- American Tract Society -- Silas Andrus and Son -- Henry F. Anners -- D. Appleton and Company -- The Arena Publishing Company -- Authors' Publishing Company -- John Babcock -- Richard G. Badgera nd Company -- Francis Bailey -- The Baker and Taylor Company -- Walter H. Baker Company ("Baker's Plays") -- A. L. Bancroft and Company -- E.E. Barclay and Company --- C.W. Bardeen -- A.S. Barnes and Company -- Beacon Press -- Beadle and Adams -- Belford, Clarke and Company -- Robert Bell -- Benziger Brother -- R. G. Berford Company - Drexel Biddle - John Bioren - The Blakiston Company - Blelock and Company - E. Bliss and E. White - Robert Bonner's Sons - Book Supply Company - Bowen-Merrill Company - John Bradburn - Ira Bradley and Company - J.W. Bradley and Company - Frederic A. Brady - Charles H. Brainard - Brentano's - Job Buffum - Bunce and Brother - Burgess, Stringer and Company - A.L. Burt Company - E.H. Butler and Company - H.M. Caldwell Company - Cambridge Press - M. Carey and Company -- Carey and Hart - G.W. Carleton - Robert Carter and Brothers - Carter and Hendee - Cassell Publishing Company - The Century Company - William Charles - The Christian Publishing Company - Robert Clarke and Brothers - Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger - P.F. Collier - Collin and Small - Isaac Collins - S. Collins - S. Colman - W.B. Conkey Company -- John Conrad and Company - The Continental Publishing Company - David C. Cook Publishing Company - Increase Cooke, and Company -George Coolidge - Copeland and Day - N. Coverly - Thomas Y. Crowell Company - cummings and Hilliard - Peter F. Cunningham - Cupples, Upham and Company - William S. Damrell - Mahlon Daly - T.S. Denison and Company - Derby and Miller - Robert M. DeWitt Publisher - DeWolfe, Fiske and Company - Dick and Fitzgerald - Charles T. Dillingham Company - The G.W.Dillingham Company - Dix, Edwards and Company - Dodd, Mead and Company - Dodge Publishing Company - Patrick Donahoe - R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company - Donohue and Henneberry -M. Doolady - Doubleday and Company - William Doxey - The Dramatic Publishing Company - Edward Dunigan and Brother - William Durrell - E.P. Dutton and Company - Duyckinck and Company - James H. Earle and Company - The Editor Publishing Company - Paul Elder and Company - Elliott, Thomes and Talbot - The George H. Ellis Company - Ess Ess Publishing Company - Estes and Lauriat - R.F.Fenno and Company - E. Ferret and Company - Fetridge and Company - Fields, Osgood and Company - John West Folsom - Forbes and Company - J.B. Ford and Company-Fords, Howard, and Hulbert - Fowler and Wells Company - Richard K. Fox - C.S. Francis - James French - Samuel French - Hugh Gaine -Charles Gaylord - Samuel Gerrish - William F. Gill Company - W. and J. Gilman - F. Gleason's Publishing Hall - Godey and McMichael - S.G. Goodrich - C.E. Goodspeed and Company - William H. Graham - T. and S. Green -- Timothy Green - Benjamin H. Greene - S.C. Griggs and Company - Grosset and Dunlap - E.J. Hale and Son - Samuel Hall - Harper and Brothers - James P. Harrison Company -Willlis P. Hazard - B. Herder Book Company - E.R. Herrick and Company - George M. Hill Coompany - Hilliard, Gray and Company - Hilton and Company - Hogan and Thompson - Henry Holt and Company - Home Publishing Company -- E. and E. Hosford - Hotchkiss and Company - Houghton Mifflin Company - Henry Hoyt - Hudson and Goodwin - Hurd and Houghtn - Hurst and Company - M.J. Ivers and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - U.P. James - John P. Jewett and Company -The Jewish Publication Society - Benjamin, Jacob, and Robert Johnson - Jacob Johnson and Company - Jone's Publishing House - Orange Judd Publishing Company - W.B. Keen, Cooke and Company - Kelly, Piet and Company - P.J. Kenedy and Sons - Keppler and Schwarzmann - Charles H. Kerr and Company - Key and Biddle - Kiggins and Kellogg - Solomon King - Laird and Lee - Lamson, Wolffe and Company - the John Lane Company - W.A. Leary and Company - Leavitt and Allen - Lee and Shepard - The Frank Leslie Publishing House - Lilly, Wait and Company - H. Long and Brother -Longmans, Green and Company -- D. Longworth - A.K. Loring - D. Lothrop and Company - John W. Lovell Company - Levell, Coryell and Company - Fielding Lucas, Jr. -The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company - The Macmillian Company - Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb - William S. Martien - Mason Brothers -- H. Maxwell - A.C. McClurg and Company - The David McKay Company - McLoughlin Brothers - The Merriam Company - Merrill and Baker - The Mershon Company - J. Metcalf - The Methodist Book Concern - James Miller - Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Company - John P. Morton and Company - George Munro - Norman L. Munro - James Munroe and Company - Monroe and Francis - Joel Munsell - Frank A. Munsell - Frank A. Munsey and Company - John Murphy and Company - Benjamin B. Musey and Company. , Part 2 -- Nafis and Cornish - Joseph Nancrede - The Neale Publishing Company - F. Tennyson Neely - Thomas Nelson and Sons - Mark Newman - J .S. Ogilvie and Company - Old Franklin Publishing House - James R. Osgood and Company - Patrick O'Shea - Otis, Broaders and Company - John Owen - L.C. Page and Company - William Parks - Peter Paul Book Company - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - H.B. Pearson - H.C.Peck and Theo. Bliss - Penn Publishing Company - T.B. Peterson and Brothers - Philips, Sampson and Company - Elihu Phinney - Pictorial Printing Company - Pollard and Moss - Porter and Coates - John E. Potter and Company - G.P. Putnam's Sons - The Queen City Publishing House - Rand, Avery and Company - Rand McNally and Company - Anson D.F. Randolph - Henry Ranlet - J.S. Redfield - James Redpath - Fleming H. Revell Company - John C. Riker - Riverside Press - Roberts Brothers - A.M. Robertson and Company - A. Roman and Company - The Roycroft Printing Shop -Rudd and Carleton - B.B. Russell and Son - D. and J. Sadlier and Company - Charles Scribner's Sons - Sheldon and Company - Shepard, Clark and Brown - Sidney's Press - Sierra Club Books - Small, Maynard and Company - J. Stilman Smith and Company - W.B. Smith and Company - Star Spangled Banner Office - Ashbel Stoddard - Frederick A. Stokes Company - Herbert S. Stone and Company - Stone and Kimball - Stratton and Barnard - Street and Smith - Stringer and Townsend - Henry A. Sumner -T.and J. Swords and Company - J. Selwin Tait and Sons - William Taylor and Company - Isaiah Thomas - Ticknor and Fields - J.E. Tilton and Company - Abel Tompkins - Frank Tousey - The Transatlantic Publish Company - John F. Trow and Company - United States Book Company - Waite, Peirce and Company - Walker, Evans, and Cogswell Company - Fredrick Warne and Company - Way and Williams - Charles L. Webster and Company - Ther Werner Company - West and Johnston -- William White and Company - W.A. Wilde Company - John Wiley and Sons - L. Willard - A. Williams and Company - Williams Brothers - J. Winchester - John C. Winston Company - Samuel Wood - R. Worthington and Company - William Young - G.B. Zieber and Company. , Mode of access: Internet.

Language: English

URL: Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online

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ISBN: 9780814768624

Content: The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the motion pictures he has directed reveal significant filmmaking talents, and show him to be what he has called himself, a "total filmmaker." Yet his work has been frequently derided by American critics. This book challenges that easy reading by taking a more careful look at Lewis's considerable body of work onscreen in 16 diverse and penetrating essays. Turning to such films asThe Nutty Professor, The Ladies Man, The King of Comedy, The Delicate Delinquent, Living It Up, The Errand Boy, The Disorderly Orderly, Arizona Dream, and The Geisha Boy, the contributors address topics ranging from Lewis's on- and offscreen performances, the representations of disability in his films, and the European obsession with Lewis, to his relationship with Dean Martin and Lewis's masculinity. Far from an out of control hysteric, Enfant Terrible! instead reveals Jerry Lewis to be a meticulous master of performance with a keen sense of American culture and the contemporary world. Contributors include: Mikita Brottman, Scott Bukatman, David Desser, Leslie A. Fiedler, Craig Fischer, Lucy Fischer, Krin Gabbard, Barry Keith Grant, Andrew Horton, Susan Hunt, Frank Krutnik, Marcia Landy, Peter Lehman, Shawn Levy, Dana Polan, Murray Pomerance, and J. P. Telotte.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Contributors -- , I. Jerry and Me -- , 1. Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis? “That’s Amore . . .” -- , 2. Being Rupert Pupkin -- , 2. Jerry Lewis, Faces Off -- , 3. Dreaming of Jerry Lewis’s Arizona Dream -- , 4. Jerry Agonistes: An Obscure Object of Critical Desire -- , 5. Flaming Creature: Jerry Lewis and Screen Performance in Hollywood or Bust -- , 6. The Day the Clown Quit: Jerry Lewis Returns to The Jazz Singer’s Roots -- , 3. Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations -- , 7. Sex and Slapstick: The Martin and Lewis Phenomenon -- , 8. The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis -- , 9. Sick Jokes: Humor and Health in the Work of Jerry Lewis -- , 10. The Geisha Boy: Orientalizing the Jewish Man -- , 11. Jerry in the City: The Topology of The King of Comedy -- , 12. Terminal Idiocy (The comedian is the message) -- , 4. Jerry-Built -- , 13. “The Inner Man”: Mind, Body, and Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor -- , 14. Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisure in the Films of Jerry Lewis -- , 15. Hello Deli!: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent -- , 16. The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the Powers of the Tongue -- , Works Cited -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814768624

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814768624

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Format: 1 online resource (160 pages).

ISBN: 1-55753-951-0

Content: He was twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction: in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play Clarence launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and provided Helen Hayes with an early successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy-story tradition which started with the works of Mark Twain. Early in this century, through his novel The Turmoil, he warned of sacrificing the environment to industrial growth. Yet, since his death in 1946, Booth Tarkington–this writer from the Midwest who accomplished so much–has faded from the memory of the reading public, and many of his works are out of print. But his memory is fresh and vivid in the mind of his grandniece Susanah Mayberry, and her recollections of him leap from the pages of her book. She recalls that as a small child, before she was aware of her uncle’s fame as a writer, he emerged as the one figure whose outline was clear among the blur of forms that made up her large family. “No one who met Booth Tarkington ever forgot him,” says his great-niece. So, she introduces the reader to this multifaceted individual: the young man-about-town, the prankster, the writer of humorous letters (who drew caricatures in the margins), the bereaved father, the inspiration of the affection of three women (simultaneously), and the lover and collector of art objects and portraits. The author of this volume draws primarily upon her own personal experiences, family lore, and letters (some never published before) to portray her amiable uncle. She tells of the pleasure it gave him to entertain his young nephews and nieces at his Tudor-style winter home in Indianapolis – where they played a spirited form of charades. She recalls vacations which she, as a college student, spent at his light-filled summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine – where she met his famous neighbors. During all of those times, Uncle Booth was the keen observer of youth, who created Penrod and friends from his observations, and the teacher o f youth, who transmitted his own love of art to his young relations. While recapturing memories of the unforgettable Tarkington, Mayberry recreates an era of elegant and leisurely living, when on the dining table “in the fingerbowls . . . were nosegays of sweet peas and lemon verbena or geranium leaves.” Susanah Mayberry shares with the reader a treasure of family photographs including Tarkington at various ages; interiors and exteriors of his homes; her father and uncles as children (the models of Penrod); the writer’s indomitable sister who championed his early work; and his devoted second wife, a “gentle dragon,” who kept his day-to-day life running smoothly. Indiana residents will feel “at home” with the frequent references to the state and its people. Indianapolis of the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries influenced Tarkington and his work. The city was his birthplace and his death place. He spent a year at Purdue University where he met such “brilliancies” as George Ade and John McCutcheon. Other famous and not-so-famous Hoosiers became a part of Tarkington’s life, and they—along with international literary, theatrical, and political luminaries—reappear in Susanah Mayberry’s recollections of her amiable uncle.

Note: English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55753-965-0

Language: English

Keywords: Biographies. ; Electronic books.

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (160 pages).

ISBN: 1-55753-951-0

Content: He was twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction: in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play Clarence launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and provided Helen Hayes with an early successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy-story tradition which started with the works of Mark Twain. Early in this century, through his novel The Turmoil, he warned of sacrificing the environment to industrial growth. Yet, since his death in 1946, Booth Tarkington–this writer from the Midwest who accomplished so much–has faded from the memory of the reading public, and many of his works are out of print. But his memory is fresh and vivid in the mind of his grandniece Susanah Mayberry, and her recollections of him leap from the pages of her book. She recalls that as a small child, before she was aware of her uncle’s fame as a writer, he emerged as the one figure whose outline was clear among the blur of forms that made up her large family. “No one who met Booth Tarkington ever forgot him,” says his great-niece. So, she introduces the reader to this multifaceted individual: the young man-about-town, the prankster, the writer of humorous letters (who drew caricatures in the margins), the bereaved father, the inspiration of the affection of three women (simultaneously), and the lover and collector of art objects and portraits. The author of this volume draws primarily upon her own personal experiences, family lore, and letters (some never published before) to portray her amiable uncle. She tells of the pleasure it gave him to entertain his young nephews and nieces at his Tudor-style winter home in Indianapolis – where they played a spirited form of charades. She recalls vacations which she, as a college student, spent at his light-filled summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine – where she met his famous neighbors. During all of those times, Uncle Booth was the keen observer of youth, who created Penrod and friends from his observations, and the teacher o f youth, who transmitted his own love of art to his young relations. While recapturing memories of the unforgettable Tarkington, Mayberry recreates an era of elegant and leisurely living, when on the dining table “in the fingerbowls . . . were nosegays of sweet peas and lemon verbena or geranium leaves.” Susanah Mayberry shares with the reader a treasure of family photographs including Tarkington at various ages; interiors and exteriors of his homes; her father and uncles as children (the models of Penrod); the writer’s indomitable sister who championed his early work; and his devoted second wife, a “gentle dragon,” who kept his day-to-day life running smoothly. Indiana residents will feel “at home” with the frequent references to the state and its people. Indianapolis of the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries influenced Tarkington and his work. The city was his birthplace and his death place. He spent a year at Purdue University where he met such “brilliancies” as George Ade and John McCutcheon. Other famous and not-so-famous Hoosiers became a part of Tarkington’s life, and they—along with international literary, theatrical, and political luminaries—reappear in Susanah Mayberry’s recollections of her amiable uncle.

Note: English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55753-965-0

Language: English

Keywords: Biographies. ; Electronic books.

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (160 pages).

ISBN: 1-55753-951-0

Content: He was twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction: in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play Clarence launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and provided Helen Hayes with an early successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy-story tradition which started with the works of Mark Twain. Early in this century, through his novel The Turmoil, he warned of sacrificing the environment to industrial growth. Yet, since his death in 1946, Booth Tarkington–this writer from the Midwest who accomplished so much–has faded from the memory of the reading public, and many of his works are out of print. But his memory is fresh and vivid in the mind of his grandniece Susanah Mayberry, and her recollections of him leap from the pages of her book. She recalls that as a small child, before she was aware of her uncle’s fame as a writer, he emerged as the one figure whose outline was clear among the blur of forms that made up her large family. “No one who met Booth Tarkington ever forgot him,” says his great-niece. So, she introduces the reader to this multifaceted individual: the young man-about-town, the prankster, the writer of humorous letters (who drew caricatures in the margins), the bereaved father, the inspiration of the affection of three women (simultaneously), and the lover and collector of art objects and portraits. The author of this volume draws primarily upon her own personal experiences, family lore, and letters (some never published before) to portray her amiable uncle. She tells of the pleasure it gave him to entertain his young nephews and nieces at his Tudor-style winter home in Indianapolis – where they played a spirited form of charades. She recalls vacations which she, as a college student, spent at his light-filled summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine – where she met his famous neighbors. During all of those times, Uncle Booth was the keen observer of youth, who created Penrod and friends from his observations, and the teacher o f youth, who transmitted his own love of art to his young relations. While recapturing memories of the unforgettable Tarkington, Mayberry recreates an era of elegant and leisurely living, when on the dining table “in the fingerbowls . . . were nosegays of sweet peas and lemon verbena or geranium leaves.” Susanah Mayberry shares with the reader a treasure of family photographs including Tarkington at various ages; interiors and exteriors of his homes; her father and uncles as children (the models of Penrod); the writer’s indomitable sister who championed his early work; and his devoted second wife, a “gentle dragon,” who kept his day-to-day life running smoothly. Indiana residents will feel “at home” with the frequent references to the state and its people. Indianapolis of the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries influenced Tarkington and his work. The city was his birthplace and his death place. He spent a year at Purdue University where he met such “brilliancies” as George Ade and John McCutcheon. Other famous and not-so-famous Hoosiers became a part of Tarkington’s life, and they—along with international literary, theatrical, and political luminaries—reappear in Susanah Mayberry’s recollections of her amiable uncle.

Note: English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55753-965-0

Language: English

Keywords: Biographies. ; Electronic books.

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

Edition: Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780810317277 , 0810317273

Series Statement: Gale Literature Resource Center

Content: Part 1 -- Abbey Press -- J.S. and C. Adams -- Advance Publishing Company -- Robert Aitken -- John B. Alden -- Alden, Beardsley and Company -- Charles Wesley Alexander -- John Allen and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- American News Company -- American Publishing Company -- American Stationers' Company -- American Sunday-School Union - American Temperance Union -- American Tract Society -- Silas Andrus and Son -- Henry F. Anners -- D. Appleton and Company -- The Arena Publishing Company -- Authors' Publishing Company -- John Babcock -- Richard G. Badgera nd Company -- Francis Bailey -- The Baker and Taylor Company -- Walter H. Baker Company ("Baker's Plays") -- A. L. Bancroft and Company -- E.E. Barclay and Company --- C.W. Bardeen -- A.S. Barnes and Company -- Beacon Press -- Beadle and Adams -- Belford, Clarke and Company -- Robert Bell -- Benziger Brother -- R. G. Berford Company - Drexel Biddle - John Bioren - The Blakiston Company - Blelock and Company - E. Bliss and E. White - Robert Bonner's Sons - Book Supply Company - Bowen-Merrill Company - John Bradburn - Ira Bradley and Company - J.W. Bradley and Company - Frederic A. Brady - Charles H. Brainard - Brentano's - Job Buffum - Bunce and Brother - Burgess, Stringer and Company - A.L. Burt Company - E.H. Butler and Company - H.M. Caldwell Company - Cambridge Press - M. Carey and Company -- Carey and Hart - G.W. Carleton - Robert Carter and Brothers - Carter and Hendee - Cassell Publishing Company - The Century Company - William Charles - The Christian Publishing Company - Robert Clarke and Brothers - Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger - P.F. Collier - Collin and Small - Isaac Collins - S. Collins - S. Colman - W.B. Conkey Company -- John Conrad and Company - The Continental Publishing Company - David C. Cook Publishing Company - Increase Cooke, and Company -George Coolidge - Copeland and Day - N. Coverly - Thomas Y. Crowell Company - cummings and Hilliard - Peter F. Cunningham - Cupples, Upham and Company - William S. Damrell - Mahlon Daly - T.S. Denison and Company - Derby and Miller - Robert M. DeWitt Publisher - DeWolfe, Fiske and Company - Dick and Fitzgerald - Charles T. Dillingham Company - The G.W.Dillingham Company - Dix, Edwards and Company - Dodd, Mead and Company - Dodge Publishing Company - Patrick Donahoe - R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company - Donohue and Henneberry -M. Doolady - Doubleday and Company - William Doxey - The Dramatic Publishing Company - Edward Dunigan and Brother - William Durrell - E.P. Dutton and Company - Duyckinck and Company - James H. Earle and Company - The Editor Publishing Company - Paul Elder and Company - Elliott, Thomes and Talbot - The George H. Ellis Company - Ess Ess Publishing Company - Estes and Lauriat - R.F.Fenno and Company - E. Ferret and Company - Fetridge and Company - Fields, Osgood and Company - John West Folsom - Forbes and Company - J.B. Ford and Company-Fords, Howard, and Hulbert - Fowler and Wells Company - Richard K. Fox - C.S. Francis - James French - Samuel French - Hugh Gaine -Charles Gaylord - Samuel Gerrish - William F. Gill Company - W. and J. Gilman - F. Gleason's Publishing Hall - Godey and McMichael - S.G. Goodrich - C.E. Goodspeed and Company - William H. Graham - T. and S. Green -- Timothy Green - Benjamin H. Greene - S.C. Griggs and Company - Grosset and Dunlap - E.J. Hale and Son - Samuel Hall - Harper and Brothers - James P. Harrison Company -Willlis P. Hazard - B. Herder Book Company - E.R. Herrick and Company - George M. Hill Coompany - Hilliard, Gray and Company - Hilton and Company - Hogan and Thompson - Henry Holt and Company - Home Publishing Company -- E. and E. Hosford - Hotchkiss and Company - Houghton Mifflin Company - Henry Hoyt - Hudson and Goodwin - Hurd and Houghtn - Hurst and Company - M.J. Ivers and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - U.P. James - John P. Jewett and Company -The Jewish Publication Society - Benjamin, Jacob, and Robert Johnson - Jacob Johnson and Company - Jone's Publishing House - Orange Judd Publishing Company - W.B. Keen, Cooke and Company - Kelly, Piet and Company - P.J. Kenedy and Sons - Keppler and Schwarzmann - Charles H. Kerr and Company - Key and Biddle - Kiggins and Kellogg - Solomon King - Laird and Lee - Lamson, Wolffe and Company - the John Lane Company - W.A. Leary and Company - Leavitt and Allen - Lee and Shepard - The Frank Leslie Publishing House - Lilly, Wait and Company - H. Long and Brother -Longmans, Green and Company -- D. Longworth - A.K. Loring - D. Lothrop and Company - John W. Lovell Company - Levell, Coryell and Company - Fielding Lucas, Jr. -The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company - The Macmillian Company - Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb - William S. Martien - Mason Brothers -- H. Maxwell - A.C. McClurg and Company - The David McKay Company - McLoughlin Brothers - The Merriam Company - Merrill and Baker - The Mershon Company - J. Metcalf - The Methodist Book Concern - James Miller - Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Company - John P. Morton and Company - George Munro - Norman L. Munro - James Munroe and Company - Monroe and Francis - Joel Munsell - Frank A. Munsell - Frank A. Munsey and Company - John Murphy and Company - Benjamin B. Musey and Company.

Content: Part 2 -- Nafis and Cornish - Joseph Nancrede - The Neale Publishing Company - F. Tennyson Neely - Thomas Nelson and Sons - Mark Newman - J .S. Ogilvie and Company - Old Franklin Publishing House - James R. Osgood and Company - Patrick O'Shea - Otis, Broaders and Company - John Owen - L.C. Page and Company - William Parks - Peter Paul Book Company - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - H.B. Pearson - H.C.Peck and Theo. Bliss - Penn Publishing Company - T.B. Peterson and Brothers - Philips, Sampson and Company - Elihu Phinney - Pictorial Printing Company - Pollard and Moss - Porter and Coates - John E. Potter and Company - G.P. Putnam's Sons - The Queen City Publishing House - Rand, Avery and Company - Rand McNally and Company - Anson D.F. Randolph - Henry Ranlet - J.S. Redfield - James Redpath - Fleming H. Revell Company - John C. Riker - Riverside Press - Roberts Brothers - A.M. Robertson and Company - A. Roman and Company - The Roycroft Printing Shop -Rudd and Carleton - B.B. Russell and Son - D. and J. Sadlier and Company - Charles Scribner's Sons - Sheldon and Company - Shepard, Clark and Brown - Sidney's Press - Sierra Club Books - Small, Maynard and Company - J. Stilman Smith and Company - W.B. Smith and Company - Star Spangled Banner Office - Ashbel Stoddard - Frederick A. Stokes Company - Herbert S. Stone and Company - Stone and Kimball - Stratton and Barnard - Street and Smith - Stringer and Townsend - Henry A. Sumner -T.and J. Swords and Company - J. Selwin Tait and Sons - William Taylor and Company - Isaiah Thomas - Ticknor and Fields - J.E. Tilton and Company - Abel Tompkins - Frank Tousey - The Transatlantic Publish Company - John F. Trow and Company - United States Book Company - Waite, Peirce and Company - Walker, Evans, and Cogswell Company - Fredrick Warne and Company - Way and Williams - Charles L. Webster and Company - Ther Werner Company - West and Johnston -- William White and Company - W.A. Wilde Company - John Wiley and Sons - L. Willard - A. Williams and Company - Williams Brothers - J. Winchester - John C. Winston Company - Samuel Wood - R. Worthington and Company - William Young - G.B. Zieber and Company.

Content: Contains entries on the history and character of American publishers of literature in book format, concentrating on trade publishing founded prior to 1900

Note: Original 715 p , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web , Mode of access: Internet.

Language: English

URL: Available via Gale Literature Resource Center

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

Edition: Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780810317277 , 0810317273

Series Statement: Dictionary of literary biography v. 49

Content: Part 1 -- Abbey Press -- J.S. and C. Adams -- Advance Publishing Company -- Robert Aitken -- John B. Alden -- Alden, Beardsley and Company -- Charles Wesley Alexander -- John Allen and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- W.L. Allison -- Henry Altemus and Company -- American News Company -- American Publishing Company -- American Stationers' Company -- American Sunday-School Union - American Temperance Union -- American Tract Society -- Silas Andrus and Son -- Henry F. Anners -- D. Appleton and Company -- The Arena Publishing Company -- Authors' Publishing Company -- John Babcock -- Richard G. Badgera nd Company -- Francis Bailey -- The Baker and Taylor Company -- Walter H. Baker Company ("Baker's Plays") -- A. L. Bancroft and Company -- E.E. Barclay and Company --- C.W. Bardeen -- A.S. Barnes and Company -- Beacon Press -- Beadle and Adams -- Belford, Clarke and Company -- Robert Bell -- Benziger Brother -- R. G. Berford Company - Drexel Biddle - John Bioren - The Blakiston Company - Blelock and Company - E. Bliss and E. White - Robert Bonner's Sons - Book Supply Company - Bowen-Merrill Company - John Bradburn - Ira Bradley and Company - J.W. Bradley and Company - Frederic A. Brady - Charles H. Brainard - Brentano's - Job Buffum - Bunce and Brother - Burgess, Stringer and Company - A.L. Burt Company - E.H. Butler and Company - H.M. Caldwell Company - Cambridge Press - M. Carey and Company -- Carey and Hart - G.W. Carleton - Robert Carter and Brothers - Carter and Hendee - Cassell Publishing Company - The Century Company - William Charles - The Christian Publishing Company - Robert Clarke and Brothers - Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger - P.F. Collier - Collin and Small - Isaac Collins - S. Collins - S. Colman - W.B. Conkey Company -- John Conrad and Company - The Continental Publishing Company - David C. Cook Publishing Company - Increase Cooke, and Company -George Coolidge - Copeland and Day - N. Coverly - Thomas Y. Crowell Company - cummings and Hilliard - Peter F. Cunningham - Cupples, Upham and Company - William S. Damrell - Mahlon Daly - T.S. Denison and Company - Derby and Miller - Robert M. DeWitt Publisher - DeWolfe, Fiske and Company - Dick and Fitzgerald - Charles T. Dillingham Company - The G.W.Dillingham Company - Dix, Edwards and Company - Dodd, Mead and Company - Dodge Publishing Company - Patrick Donahoe - R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company - Donohue and Henneberry -M. Doolady - Doubleday and Company - William Doxey - The Dramatic Publishing Company - Edward Dunigan and Brother - William Durrell - E.P. Dutton and Company - Duyckinck and Company - James H. Earle and Company - The Editor Publishing Company - Paul Elder and Company - Elliott, Thomes and Talbot - The George H. Ellis Company - Ess Ess Publishing Company - Estes and Lauriat - R.F.Fenno and Company - E. Ferret and Company - Fetridge and Company - Fields, Osgood and Company - John West Folsom - Forbes and Company - J.B. Ford and Company-Fords, Howard, and Hulbert - Fowler and Wells Company - Richard K. Fox - C.S. Francis - James French - Samuel French - Hugh Gaine -Charles Gaylord - Samuel Gerrish - William F. Gill Company - W. and J. Gilman - F. Gleason's Publishing Hall - Godey and McMichael - S.G. Goodrich - C.E. Goodspeed and Company - William H. Graham - T. and S. Green -- Timothy Green - Benjamin H. Greene - S.C. Griggs and Company - Grosset and Dunlap - E.J. Hale and Son - Samuel Hall - Harper and Brothers - James P. Harrison Company -Willlis P. Hazard - B. Herder Book Company - E.R. Herrick and Company - George M. Hill Coompany - Hilliard, Gray and Company - Hilton and Company - Hogan and Thompson - Henry Holt and Company - Home Publishing Company -- E. and E. Hosford - Hotchkiss and Company - Houghton Mifflin Company - Henry Hoyt - Hudson and Goodwin - Hurd and Houghtn - Hurst and Company - M.J. Ivers and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - George W. Jacobs and Company - U.P. James - John P. Jewett and Company -The Jewish Publication Society - Benjamin, Jacob, and Robert Johnson - Jacob Johnson and Company - Jone's Publishing House - Orange Judd Publishing Company - W.B. Keen, Cooke and Company - Kelly, Piet and Company - P.J. Kenedy and Sons - Keppler and Schwarzmann - Charles H. Kerr and Company - Key and Biddle - Kiggins and Kellogg - Solomon King - Laird and Lee - Lamson, Wolffe and Company - the John Lane Company - W.A. Leary and Company - Leavitt and Allen - Lee and Shepard - The Frank Leslie Publishing House - Lilly, Wait and Company - H. Long and Brother -Longmans, Green and Company -- D. Longworth - A.K. Loring - D. Lothrop and Company - John W. Lovell Company - Levell, Coryell and Company - Fielding Lucas, Jr. -The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company - The Macmillian Company - Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb - William S. Martien - Mason Brothers -- H. Maxwell - A.C. McClurg and Company - The David McKay Company - McLoughlin Brothers - The Merriam Company - Merrill and Baker - The Mershon Company - J. Metcalf - The Methodist Book Concern - James Miller - Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Company - John P. Morton and Company - George Munro - Norman L. Munro - James Munroe and Company - Monroe and Francis - Joel Munsell - Frank A. Munsell - Frank A. Munsey and Company - John Murphy and Company - Benjamin B. Musey and Company.

Content: Part 2 -- Nafis and Cornish - Joseph Nancrede - The Neale Publishing Company - F. Tennyson Neely - Thomas Nelson and Sons - Mark Newman - J .S. Ogilvie and Company - Old Franklin Publishing House - James R. Osgood and Company - Patrick O'Shea - Otis, Broaders and Company - John Owen - L.C. Page and Company - William Parks - Peter Paul Book Company - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - H.B. Pearson - H.C.Peck and Theo. Bliss - Penn Publishing Company - T.B. Peterson and Brothers - Philips, Sampson and Company - Elihu Phinney - Pictorial Printing Company - Pollard and Moss - Porter and Coates - John E. Potter and Company - G.P. Putnam's Sons - The Queen City Publishing House - Rand, Avery and Company - Rand McNally and Company - Anson D.F. Randolph - Henry Ranlet - J.S. Redfield - James Redpath - Fleming H. Revell Company - John C. Riker - Riverside Press - Roberts Brothers - A.M. Robertson and Company - A. Roman and Company - The Roycroft Printing Shop -Rudd and Carleton - B.B. Russell and Son - D. and J. Sadlier and Company - Charles Scribner's Sons - Sheldon and Company - Shepard, Clark and Brown - Sidney's Press - Sierra Club Books - Small, Maynard and Company - J. Stilman Smith and Company - W.B. Smith and Company - Star Spangled Banner Office - Ashbel Stoddard - Frederick A. Stokes Company - Herbert S. Stone and Company - Stone and Kimball - Stratton and Barnard - Street and Smith - Stringer and Townsend - Henry A. Sumner -T.and J. Swords and Company - J. Selwin Tait and Sons - William Taylor and Company - Isaiah Thomas - Ticknor and Fields - J.E. Tilton and Company - Abel Tompkins - Frank Tousey - The Transatlantic Publish Company - John F. Trow and Company - United States Book Company - Waite, Peirce and Company - Walker, Evans, and Cogswell Company - Fredrick Warne and Company - Way and Williams - Charles L. Webster and Company - Ther Werner Company - West and Johnston -- William White and Company - W.A. Wilde Company - John Wiley and Sons - L. Willard - A. Williams and Company - Williams Brothers - J. Winchester - John C. Winston Company - Samuel Wood - R. Worthington and Company - William Young - G.B. Zieber and Company.

Content: Contains entries on the history and character of American publishers of literature in book format, concentrating on trade publishing founded prior to 1900

Note: Original 715 p , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web , Mode of access: Internet.

Language: English

URL: Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online