MARKHAM, EDWIN (1852- ), b. Oregon City, Oregon. Poet. _The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems_. MILLER, CINCINNATUS HEINE (Joaquin Miller) (1841-1913), b. Wabash District, Ind. Lived in the far West, about which he writes in his poetry. _Songs of the Sierras_, _Songs of the Sunlands_, _Songs of the Desert_. MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHAN (1869-1910), b. Spencer, Ind. Poet, dramatist. _The Masque of Judgment_, _The Fire Bringer_, _The Great Divide_ (play). NICHOLSON, MEREDITH (1866- ), b. Crawforusville, Ind. Novelist. _The House of a Thousand Candles_, _The Port of Missing Men_, _The Hoosiers_ (in _National Studies in American Letters_). NORRIS, FRANK (1870-1902), b. Chicago, Ill. Realistic novel writer. _McTeague_, _The Octopus_, _The Pit_. PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM (1867-1911), b. Madison, Ind. Novelist. _The Social Secretary_, _The Second Generation_, _The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig_. PIATT, JOHN JAMES (1835- ), b. James Mills, Ind. Poet. _Western Windows_, _Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley_, _Poems of Two Friends_ (with W. D. Howells). RHODES, JAMES FORD (1848- ), b. Cleveland, Ohio. Historian. _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850_, 7 vols. The seventh volume ends with 1877. SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON (1860- ), b. South Shields, Eng. Painter, naturalist. _Wild Animals I Have Known, Lives of the Hunted, Natural History of the Ten Commandments, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The Biography of a Grizzly_. SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887), b. Windsor, Conn. Professor in University of California. Transcendental poet. Some fine verse may be found in his volumes, _Hermione and Other Poems_ and _The Hermitage and Later Poems_. SPALDING, JOHN L. (1840- ), b. Lebanon, Ky. Roman Catholic archbishop. _Education and the Higher Life_, _Things of the Mind_, _Socialism and Labor_ TARKINGTON, NEWTON BOOTH (1869- ), b. Indianapolis, Ind. Novelist. _The Gentleman from Indiana, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Two Vanrevels, Cherry, The Conquest of Canaan._ "THANET, OCTAVE." See FRENCH, ALICE. THOMPSON, MAURICE (1844-1901), b. Fairfield, Ind. Novelist, naturalist, poet. Best known works, _By-Ways and Bird Notes_, _My Winter Garden_, _Alice of Old Vincennes_. WALLACE, LEW (1827-1905), b. Brookville, Ind. Lawyer, diplomat, author. _Ben Hur_, a tale of remarkable power; _The Fair God_, _The Prince of India_. WHITE, STEWART EDWARD (1873- ) b. Grand Rapids, Mich. Writer of vigorous stories of western mountain life. _The Blazed Trail_, _The Silent Places_, _The Claim Jumpers_, _The Riverman_. WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER (1855- ), b. Johnstown Center, Wis. Journalist and poet. _Poems of Passion_, _Poems of Pleasure_, _Poems of Power_, _Poems of Sentiment_.