The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story
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The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story
American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories -- 20th century -- Bibliography; Short stories -- 20th century -- Indexes; Short stories, American
#Osbourne, Lloyd.# Born in San Francisco, April 7, 1868. Stepson
of Robert Louis Stevenson. Educated at University of Edinburgh.
Married 1896. Has been U. S. A. Vice-Consul-General at Samoa.
Author: "The Wrong Box" (with R. L. Stevenson), 1889; "The
Wrecker" (with R. L. Stevenson), 1892; "The Ebb Tide" (with
R. L. Stevenson), 1894; "The Queen vs. Billy," 1900; "Love,
the Fiddler," 1905; "The Motor-maniacs," 1905; "Wild Justice,"
1906; "Three Speeds Forward," 1906; "Baby Bullet," 1906;
"The Tin Diskers," 1906; "Schmidt," 1907; "The Adventurer,"
1907; "Infatuation," 1909; "A Person of Some Importance,"
1911; and other novels and short stories. Has written and
produced several plays. Lives in New York City.
East is East.
(345) #O'Sullivan, Vincent# (_for biography, see 1917_).
*Dance-Hall at Unigenitus.
(123) #Post, Melville Davisson.# Born in Harrison County, W. Va.,
Apr. 19, 1871. Graduate of West Virginia University in arts
and law, 1892. Married 1903. Admitted to the Bar in 1892.
Member of the Board of Regents, State Normal School. Chairman
of the Democratic Congressional Commission for West Virginia,
1898. Member of the Advisory Committee of the N. E. L.
on question of efficiency in administration of justice,
1914-15. Author: "The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason,"
1896; "The Man of Last Resort," 1897; "Dwellers in the
Hills," 1901; "The Corrector of Destinies," 1909; "The
Gilded Chair," 1910; "The Nameless Thing," 1912; "Uncle
Abner: Master of Mysteries," 1918; "The Mystery at the Blue
Villa," 1919; "The Sleuth of St. James's Square," 1920. Lives
at Lost Creek, West Virginia.
Yellow Flower.
#Reindel, Margaret H.# Born in Cleveland, O., Dec. 2, 1896.
Graduated from Western Reserve University, 1919, and spent
a year at Columbia University. Now working in a New York
department store. First story published: "Fear," The Touchstone.
Lives in New York City.
Fear.
#Rice, Louise.#
*Lubbeny Kiss.
#Roche, Arthur Somers.# Born in Somerville, Mass., Apr. 27,
1883. Son of James Jeffrey Roche. Educated at Holy Cross
College and Boston University Law School. Married. Practised
law for two years. Engaged in journalism since 1906. Author:
"Loot," 1916; "Plunder," 1917; "The Sport of Kings," 1917.
Lives at Castine, Me.
*Dummy-Chucker.
(3) #Roche, Mazo De La.#
Explorers of the Dawn.
(234) #Rosenblatt, Benjamin# (_for biography, see 1917_).
*Stepping Westward.
#Rumsey, Frances.# Born in New York City in 1886. Educated
in France. Has lived chiefly in England and France, and now
passes her time between Normandy, London, and New York.
Married. First short story: "Cash," Century Magazine, August,
1920. Author: "Mr. Gushing and Mademoiselle du Chastel,"
1917. Translator: "Japanese Impressions," by Couchoud, 1920.
*Cash.
(5) #Russell, John# (_for biography, see 1918_).
Wreck on Deliverance.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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