biography
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Patten, Gilbert
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originally George William Patten, pseudonyms Burt L Standish, William West Wilder
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| lived:
| (1866–1945)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Corinna, Maine, USA. He ran away when he was 16, worked in a machine shop, and attended Corinna Union Academy. He began selling cheaply priced novels and moved to New York City (1891) where he wrote Westerns. During 1896–1913 he wrote his Frank Merriwell series for Tip Top Weekly under the pen name of Burt L Standish. Merriwell became a popular paradigm of youth, virtue, wealth, education, good looks, and athletic ability, a mythological American juvenile hero who had little in common with his creator or readers. Patten lived in New York City and Camden, ME until he moved to California in 1941. |
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