The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02
over 1900 Names and the Writera
Have Produced Works on Every
Conceivable Subjects
Credit to State.
RUPERT HUGHES IS ONE
keokuk Man Has His Place in the
Catalos Compiled by Board Of
Trustees OF Historical
Department

! DIES MONIES, Nov. IA phrase
that has been rapidly gaining cur
rency in this state during the last
q ccade Is Iowa authors and their
works" To define and substantiate
| this phrase, and to facilitate the
study of Iowa literary effort, the
board OF trustees of the historical
department of Iowa has designed two
lists, one a general list of Iowa writ
ings, the other a chronological list
In making these compilations It was
held that when an author has been
mentioned inteliigently as an Iowa
author. or was of Iowa birth, or
worked in Iowa, he was for the pur'
poses of these lists an Iowa author.
The list of Iowa authors comprises
approximately 1900 names. Writers
on every conceivable subject, authors
whom the world has acknowledged
and honored, authors of all degrees
of popularity and eminence, are IN
cluded.
Keokuk Mentioned.
They came from all parts OF the
lstate. Davenport gave George cram
Cook, philosopher and novelist; susan
lGlaspeIl. novelist and playwright. In
private life Mrs. George Cram Cook;
and FLOYD Dell novelist and essaylst
These three people are now promi-
nent in the experimental school in
New York. and leading figures in the
life in Greenwich Village Davenport
also furnished Arthur Davidson
ricke. poet and art critic. From
MIrscatine came Ellis Parker Butler,
now famous as humonst. Edna
Ferber. prominent short story wrlter
and novelist. spent her youth IN OF
tuurwa. Albert Bigelow Paine, whose
name is now cherished by children
from one end of the country 10 the
other. spent his boyhood in Bentons-
mort. Rupert Hughes, short story
wr,ter. novelist. playwright and
music critic. lived in Keokuk from
1879 to 1902.
Herbert Clark Hoover and Carrie
CHAPMAN Gait. more widely known
for their pubic activities than TOT
their hooks. are also Iowans. Mr.
Hoover was born at West Branch
M Cat was for number OF years
eminent IN educational and news
nner circles in Mason City. Thomas
NIXON Carver. now professor at Har-
vard university and author of many
hooks on sociology and economics
was born at kirkyille- Professor
Oswald WebIen, prominent mathema-
ticssn. was born at Decorah. Otnef
writer's Of wide repute who nave al
one time or another been intimately
cnnnecte with Iowa are AiDef!
Shaw. student of business and polti-
raj problems and authority on mum,
.cipal government questions; Edward
Everett Hale, Jr.. Allen upoegraH:
wellknown magazine writer, ano
Maurice Francis Egan, critic, essay
ist educator and one-time Journalist
Called Literature.
The writings of the great ma3oElly
~ Tovans are classified by the MS
to-icaI department under fhe generai
term literature The next most
imnertant subject to engage the ener-
eies of Iowa writer is natural science
Third in point of quantity OF soc,o-
logv. The category including works
on history. biography and travei
stands fourth. Fifth is religio; sixth,
nsefuI arts; seventh, philosophy,
eighth. philosophy, and ninth, insect
laneous.