biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1938)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA. He graduated from Harvard (1882) before studying music composition in Paris (1882–4). Suffering from ill health, he spent summers in the American West, and these visits profoundly affected his future writing. He studied law at Harvard (1885–8), and settled in Philadelphia, where he practised law. By 1891 he devoted himself to writing biographies, essays, and novels, and is remembered for his Western novels, notably The Virginian (1902), a book containing the prototype of the American cowboy in subsequent fictions and films. |
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