The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-01
|S0NE AUTHORS
FROM THIS STATE
Number q low. Literary Folks =
growing and Some Are
Doing Excellent
Work.
PROMINENT ONES
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some Time Soon Which
viii be ! Notable
Gathering.
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MI. N. Brandt, formerly Of Iowa
r,,v nov editor OF the Clinton Herald,
s.d , man interested In literature %
an q newspaper wofk. with the
,ones and ambitions Of Ill writer's.
"a the following friendly rOvtsw Of
,be writer's Of Iowa In . recent issue
Of his paper: Us
4 reunion Of Iowa authors ana
writer's is to be held IN Des Moines.
II contributors TO literature. II will be
/ notable gathering, for Iowa has pro
dyced many writer's whose achieve
/! ments possess Lasting merit.
Three Iowa writer's are In the "best
sellers class-Emersdn Hough. Ran
dali parrish and Hamlin Garland.
The Arst two are more closely ASSOC
cated with the state than II Mr.. Gar
land. for they are graduates Of the
state University. and Mr.. Parrish was
recently president Of the Alumni ASSOC
CATION. But Mr.. Garland doubtless
will md it difficult to forget that his
inspiration for his Prairie Songs" an
early publication, was found ct his
boyhood home in Mitchell county.
The Sabines, father and son. have
long been connected with Iowa affairs.
The elder Sabine's history Of the
state will long remain classic. Gin
ton, OF course, has an especial Hold
on the Sabines. The scenes OF Edwin
l. sabine's Beaufort Chums'' have
been tramped over, or rowed, sculled
or padded over by every Clinton boy,
for generations, and the reader OF the
book can recognize all the familiar de-
scriptions Of river scenes between
Clinton and the mouth Of the Wapsie.
Octave Thanet, who is Miss Alice
French, Of Davenport, has been . IA
vorite for many years with the Ameri-
can reading public. Her name II
probably familiar to more homes
throughout the United States than any
other Iowa writer.
But there are many more writer's
upon whom Iowa has . claim. less
popularity known than the authors
mentioned above, but some OF them
perhaps entitled to more permanent
position in literature.
Keene Abbott, one Of the foremost
short story writer's OF America, and
his talented wife. formerly Miss Mabel
Rundell. Of Iowa City. who now
writes under the pen-name OF Avery
Abbott, should not be absent from the
reunion of literary ,notables. Mr.. Alb
bolt has recently tried his hand at
dramatic writings, and his friends are
watching for the outcome with consid-
cradle expectation. After he left the
University OF Iowa, Mr.. Abbott be.
came dramatic critic for the Oman.
World-Herald, and when he had
time, turned his hand to story writing.
At that time he possessed q wealth Of
imaginative color, but lacked the form
which his writings assumed later. 1t
IS told that number Of the university
faculty, to whom a story had been
sent, asked permission to refer 1t for
criticism to Miss Mabel Rundell. It
went back to Omaha with her appre-
clatiVe and critical comments upon It,
ana It wasn't more than a couple Of
years. before Miss Rundell became
Mrs. Keene Abbott.
Dr. John G. Parrish has recently en-
sered the great field OF historical ro-
nance, and his last publication, The
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