BURNHAM, CLARA LOUISE (1854- ) b. Newton, Mass. Moved to Chicago. Novelist. _Dr. Latimer_, _The Wise Woman._ CARLETON, WILL (1845-1912), b. Hudson, Mich. Poet, editor, lecturer. _Farm Ballads_, _Farm Legends_, _Farm Festivals_, _City Ballads_. _Over the Hills to the Poor House,_ best known single poem. CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL (1847-1902), b. Luray, Ohio. Writer of historical tales of Canada and the Northwest. _A Woman in Armour, The Lady of Fort St. John, The Romance of Dollard, The White Islander, a Story of Mackinac, Lazarre._ CHENEY, JOHN VANCE (1848- ), b. Groveland, N.Y. Moved to the West. Poet and critic. _Thistle-Drift, Wood-Blooms, Queen Helen and Other Poems._ Critical Works: _That Dome in Air_ and _The Golden Guess._ DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE (1872-1906), b. Dayton, Ohio. African descent. Journalist, poet. Wrote many fine lyrics. _Oak and Ivy_, _Lyrics of Lowly Life_, _Lyrics of the Hearthside._ DUNNE, FINLEY PETER (1867- ), b. Chicago, Ill. Humorist, journalist. _Mr. Dooley's Philosophy._ EGGLESTON, EDWARD (1837-1902), b. Vevay, Ind. Novelist of the early life of southern Indiana. _The Hoosier Schoolmaster_, _The Hoosier Schoolboy_, _Roxy_, _The Graysons._ FOOTE, MARY HALLOCK (1847- ), b. Milton, N. Y. Her novels give vivid representations of western life. _The Led Horse Claim_, _The Chosen Valley_, _Coeur d'Alene_. FRENCH, ALICE ("Octave Thanet") (1850- ), b. Andover, Mass. Novelist. _Knitters in the Sun_, _Stories of a Western Town_, _A Book of True Lovers_, _The Man of the Hour_. GARLAND, HAMLIN (1860- ), b. West Salem, Wis. Presents graphic pictures of the middle West in such stories as _Main-Traveled Roads_, _Prairie Folks_, _Rose of Dutcher's Coolly_, _Boy Life on the Prairie_. HAY, JOHN (1838-1905), b. Salem, Ind. Private secretary to President Lincoln. Lawyer, journalist, diplomatist, and statesman. _Pike County Ballads_. Joint author with J. G. Nicolay of _Abraham Lincoln: A History_, 9 vols. HERRICK, ROBERT (1868- ), b. Cambridge, Mass. Professor (University of Chicago), novelist. _The Web of Life_, _The Common Lot_, _The Master of the Inn_. HOVEY, RICHARD (1864-1900), b. Normal, Ill. Poet, dramatist. _Songs from Vagabondia_, _The Marriage of Guenevere_, _Taliesin: A Masque_. JACKSON, HELEN HUNT (1831-1885), b. Amherst, Mass. Novelist, poet. Her great western novel, _Ramona_, stands in the same relation to the Indian as _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ to the negro. Her _Century of Dishonor_ shows the wrongs done to the Indian race. _Poems_. LONDON, JACK (1876-1916), b. San Francisco, Calif. Novelist of adventure. _The Call of the Wild_, _The Children of the Frost_, _The Sea Wolf_, _The Game_. LUMMIS, CHARLES F. (1859- ), b. Lynn, Mass. Traveler, librarian, writer. _The Spanish Pioneers_, _The Man Who Married the Moon_, _The Enchanted Burn_. MCCUTCHEON, GEO. BARR (1866- ), b. Tippecanoe Co., Ind. Novelist. _Castle Craneycrow_, _Brewster's Millions_, _Beverly of Graustark_.