Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1859. Son of the director of a theatre in New Orleans. As a boy often went to plays; began to write them at fourteen; at sixteen or seventeen, organized an amateur company. Educated in the St. Louis public schools. Page in the 41st Congress. Honorary A.M., Williams, 1914. Studied law two years; had six years of experience in railroading. Special writer, and illustrator on St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York newspapers. BIBLIOGRAPHY Alabama. 1905. The Witching Hour. 1908. (Also, Dickinson, _Chief Contemporary Dramatists_, 1915.) As a Man Thinks. 1911. (Also, Baker, _Modern American Plays_. 1920.) Arizona. 1914. In Mizzoura. 1916. (Also, Moses, _Representative Plays by American Dramatists_, 1918-21, III.) For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 771. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Boynton. Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players. 1916 ---- ---- At the New Theatre. 1910. Moses. Bookm. 33 ('11): 353 (portrait), 354. Collier's, 44 ('09): 23. Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 544; 46 ('09): 544. (Portraits.) Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 183. Everybody's, 25 ('11): 681 (portrait). Forum, 39 ('08): 366; 40 ('08): 43; 42 ('09): 575. Ind. 61 ('06): 737 (portrait). Outlook, 94 ('10): 212 (portrait); 110 ('15): 836, 865 (portrait). Scrib. M. 55 ('14): 275 (portrait). World's Work, 18 ('09): 11850 (portrait), 11882. (Van Wyck Brooks.) +Eunice Tietjens (Mrs. Cloyd Head)+--poet. Born at Chicago, 1884. Married Paul Tietjens, the composer, 1904; Cloyd Head, the writer, 1920. Associate editor of _Poetry_, 1914, 1916. War correspondent in France, 1917-8. Mrs. Tietjens' _Profiles from China_ is based upon her experience as an observer of life in China. BIBLIOGRAPHY Profiles from China. 1917. Body and Raiment. 1919. Jake. 1921. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Untermeyer. Poetry, 10 ('17): 326; 15 ('20): 272. Spec. 124 ('20): 315. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1919, 1921. +Elias Tobenkin+--novelist. Born in Russia, 1882. Came to the United States as a boy. A.B., University of Wisconsin, 1905; A.M., 1906. Specialized in German literature and philosophy. Extensive newspaper experience in Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Chicago. European correspondent of _New York Tribune_, 1918-9. BIBLIOGRAPHY Witte Arrives. 1916. The House of Conrad. 1918. The Road. 1922. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 45 ('17): 300 (portrait), 303; 47 ('18): 340, 343. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1918. +(Frederic) Ridgely Torrence+--poet, dramatist. Born at Xenia, Ohio, 1875. Educated at Miami University and Princeton. Librarian in the Astor Library, 1897-1901, and Lenox Library, 1901-3. Assistant editor of _The Critic_, 1903-4, and associate editor of the _Cosmopolitan_, 1906-7. Mr. Torrence's plays for a negro theatre are worth special study. BIBLIOGRAPHY