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CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852), b. near Richmond, Va. Orator, statesman. Best speeches: _On the War of 1812_ (1813), _The Seminole War_ (1819), _The American System_ (1832).
COOKE, JOHN ESTEN (1830-1886), b. Winchester, Va. Colonial and military story writer. Best romance, _The Virginia Comedians_.
DIXON, THOMAS (1864- ), b. Shelby, N. C. Clergyman, novelist. _The Leopard's Spots_, _The One Woman_, _The Clansman_.
EVANS, AUGUSTA. See WILSON, AUGUSTA EVANS.
FOX, JOHN JR. (1863- ), b. in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. Novelist of life in the Kentucky mountains. _The Kentuckians_, _A Mountain Europa_, _A c.u.mberland Vendetta_, _The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come_, _The Trail of the Lonesome Pine_.
GAYARRE, CHARLES E. A. (1805-1895), b. New Orleans, La. Jurist, historian.
_History of Louisiana_.
GIBBONS, JAMES (1834- ), b. Baltimore, Md. Roman Catholic cardinal. _The Faith of Our Fathers_, _The Amba.s.sador of Christ_.
GLASGOW, ELLEN ANDERSON GHOLSON (1874- ), b. Richmond, Va. Novelist.
_The Descendant_, _The Voice of the People_, _The Deliverance_.
GRADY, HENRY W. (1851-1889), b. Athens, Ga. Editor, orator. Best oration, _The New South_.
HEARN, LAFCADIO (1850-1904), b. in Ionian Islands of Irish and Greek parentage. Journalist, author. Lived many years in New Orleans, went thence to New York, and still later to j.a.pan. Author of _Stray Leaves from Strange Literature_, _Two Years in the French West Indies_, _Glimpses of Unfamiliar j.a.pan_, _Out of the East_. Shows marked descriptive ability.
HEGAN, ALICE. See RICE, ALICE HEGAN.
"HENRY, O." See PORTER, SIDNEY.
JOHNSTON, MARY (1870- ), b. Buchanan, Va. Writer of vigorous, well-handled romances of Virginia history. _Prisoners of Hope_, _To Have and to Hold_, _Audrey_, _Lewis Rand_.
JOHNSTON, RICHARD MALCOLM (1822-1898), b. Hanc.o.c.k Co., Ga. Lawyer, professor of English. Writer of Georgia stories. _Dukesborough Tales_.
KENNEDY, J. P. (1795-1870), b. Baltimore, Md. Wrote three works of fiction, _Swallow Barn_, a picture of the manners and customs of Virginia at the end of the eighteenth century, _Horse-Shoe Robinson, a Tale of the Tory Ascendency_, _Rob of the Bowl_, a story of colonial Maryland.
KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT (1780-1843), b. Frederick Co., Md. _The Star-Spangled Banner_.
KING, GRACE E. (1852- ), b. New Orleans, La. Novels of Creole life and historical works on De Soto and New Orleans: _Monsieur Motte_, _Tales of Time and Place_, _Balcony Stones_.
LONGSTREET, AUGUSTUS B. (1790-1870), b. Augusta, Ga. Judge, and (later) a Methodist minister. His _Georgia Scenes_ is one of the liveliest pictures of provincial Georgia life.
MARSHALL, JOHN (1755-1835), b. Germantown, Va. Great Chief Justice of U. S.
_The Life of George Washington_.
MARTIN, GEORGE MADDEN (1866- ), b. Louisville, Ky. Novelist. _Emmy Lou--Her Book and Heart_.
MATTHEWS, JAMES BRANDER (1852- ), b. New Orleans, La. Lecturer on literature at Columbia College. Critic and story writer. _French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century_, _Margery's Lovers, A Secret of the Sea and Other Stories, The Story of a Story, The Historical Novel, Study of the Drama, The Short Story._
MULLANY, P. F. (Brother Azarias) (1847-1893), b. Ireland. Educator, essayist. _The Development of Old English Thought_, _Phases of Thought and Criticism._
O'HARA, THEODORE (1820-1867), b. Danville, Ky. Poet. _The Bivouac of the Dead._
PECK, SAMUEL MINTURN (1854- ), b. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Poet and novelist.
_Caps and Bells_, _Rhymes and Roses._
PIKE, ALBERT (1809-1891), b. Boston, Ma.s.s. Moved to Arkansas. Teacher, editor, lawyer. Wrote the popular song, _Dixie_, and _To the Mocking Bird._
PINKNEY, EDWARD COATE (1802-1828), b. London, Eng. Poet. Best lyrics, _A Serenade_, _A Health_, _Songs_, _The Indian's Bride._
PORTER, SYDNEY ("O. Henry") (1867-1910), b. Greensboro, N. C. Edited newspapers in Texas. Successful short-story writer. _The Four Million, The Heart of the West, The Gentle Grafter, Roads of Destiny, Options, The Voice of the City._
PRENTICE, GEO. D. (1802-1870), b. Preston, Conn. Editor Louisville _Journal_, poet. _Poems._ Best poem, _The Closing Year._
PRESTON, MARGARET JUNKIN (1825-1897), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Moved to Lexington, Va. Representative woman poet of the Confederacy. _Cartoons, For Love's Sake, Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse._
RANDALL, JAMES RYDER (1839-1908), b. Baltimore, Md. Teacher, poet.
_Maryland, My Maryland_ (song).
REID, CHRISTIAN. See TIERNAN, FRANCES F.
RICE (Alice Hegan) (1870- ), b. Shelbyville, Ky. A widely popular story writer of humble folk, a humorist of rare power, a cheery, breezy philosopher, and a sympathetic interpreter of the simple heart of the brave poor. _Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Lovey Mary, Captain June, Sandy, Mr. Opp._
RICE, CALE YOUNG (1872- ), b. Dixon, Ky. Author of exquisite lyrics. One of the greatest of the younger poetic dramatists whose plays have acting qualities. Poems: _From Dusk to Dusk, _With Omar_, _Song-Surf_, _Nirvana Days_. Plays: _Charles di Tocca_, _David_, _Yolanda of Cyprus_, _A Night in Avignon_.
RIVES, AMELIE (PRINCESS TROUBETSKOY) (1863- ), b. Richmond, Va.
Novelist. _The Quick or the Dead_, _Virginia of Virginia_.
RUSSELL, IRWIN (1853-1879), b. Port Gibson, Miss. Caricaturist, musician, poet. He was among the first to see the possibilities of the negro dialect in verse. _Poems_.
SEAWELL, MOLLY ELLIOT (1860-1916), b. Gloucester Co., Va. Novelist. _Little Jarvis_ (awarded a $500 prize), _Sprightly Romance of Marsac_ (awarded a $3000 prize), _Throckmorton_.
SMITH, F. HOPKINSON (1838-1915), b. Baltimore, Md. Artist, author, engineer. _Colonel Carter of Cartersville_ is his most enduring work. The Colonel is a remarkable portrait. _A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others_, _Caleb West: Master Diver_, _A Day at Laguerre's and Other Days_, _The Fortunes of Oliver Horn_.
St.i.tH, WILLIAM (1689-1755), b. Virginia. Scholarly historian who was so painstaking and detailed in his accounts that he was almost neglected until the present time. _History of Virginia from the First Discovery to the Dissolution of the London Company_.
STUART, RUTH MCENERY (1856- ), b. in parish of Avoyelles, La. Specially liked for her humorous negro and plantation stories. _A Golden Wedding and Other Tales_, _Sonny_, _Holly and Pizen_.
THOMPSON, WILLIAM TAPPAN (1812-1882), b. Ravenna, Ohio. Georgia journalist and humorist. _Major Jones's Courtship_.
TIERNAN, FRANCES F. ("Christian Reid") (1846- ), b. Salisbury, N. C.
Novelist. _Child of Mary_, _Heart of Steel_.
TROUBETSKOY, PRINCESS. See RIVES, AMELIE.
WEEMS, MASON LOCKE (1760-1825), b. Dumfries, Va. Clergyman, biographer.
_Life of Washington_.
WILSON, AUGUSTA EVANS (1835-1909), b. Columbus, Ga. Prolific novelist. Best novel, _Saint Elmo_.
WILSON, WOODROW (1856- ), b. Staunton, Va. Educator, historian, statesman. _A History of the American People_.
WIRT, WILLIAM (1772-1834), b. Bladensburg, Md. Lawyer. _Life and Character of Patrick Henry_, _Letters of the British Spy_.
