Produced by Elizaveta Shevyakhova, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) LITERATURE IN THE MAKING BY SOME OF ITS MAKERS PRESENTED BY JOYCE KILMER [Illustration] HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published April, 1917 TO LOUIS BEVIER, PH.D., LITT.D. AND LOUIS BEVIER, JR. CONTENTS PAGE _WAR STOPS LITERATURE_ 3 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS William Dean Howells, the foremost American novelist of his generation, was born at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, March 11, 1837. Most of his many novels have been realistic and sympathetic studies of contemporary American life. For some years he has written "The Editor's Easy Chair" in _Harper's Magazine_. He has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, and in 1915 the National Institute of Arts and Letters awarded him its Gold Medal "For distinguished work in fiction." _The Daughter of the Storage_ and _Years of My Youth_ are his latest books. _THE JOYS OF THE POOR_ 19 KATHLEEN NORRIS Kathleen Norris was born in San Francisco, California, July 16, 1880. She is the wife of Charles Gilman Norris, himself a writer and the brother of the late Frank Norris. Among Mrs. Norris's best-known novels are _Mother_, _The Story of Julia Page_, and _The Heart of Rachel_. _NATIONAL PROSPERITY AND ART_ 35 BOOTH TARKINGTON Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 29, 1869. A prolific and brilliant writer, he has scored many successes of different types, being the author of the romantic drama _Monsieur Beaucaire_, and of many novels dealing with contemporary Middle-Western life. Recently he has, in _Seventeen_ and the "Penrod" stories, given his attention to the comedies and tragedies of American youth. _ROMANTICISM AND AMERICAN HUMOR_ 45 MONTAGUE GLASS Montague Glass was born at Manchester, England, July 23, 1877. Coming in his youth to the United States, he brought into American fiction a new type--that of the metropolitan Jewish-American business man. His _Potash and Perlmutter_ and _Abe and Mawruss_ have given him a European as well as an American reputation. _THE "MOVIES" BENEFIT LITERATURE_ 63