The Best Short Stories of 1920 Part 70

(36) #Montague, Margaret Prescott# (_for biography, see 1919_).

*Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge.

(6) #Murray, Roy Irving.# Born at Brooklyn, Wis., July 25, 1882. Graduated from Hobart College, 1904. First story: "Sealed Orders," McBride's Magazine, Dec., 1915. Is a master at St. Mark's School, Southborough, Ma.s.s.

Subst.i.tute.

(6) #Muth, Edna Tucker.#

*Gallipeau.

#O'Brien, Frederick.# Born in Baltimore. Educated in a Jesuit school. Shipped before the mast at the age of 18. Tramped over Brazil as a day laborer, and through the West Indies.

Returned to America and read law in his father's office. Wandered without money over Europe, and was a sandwichman in London.

On the staff of the Paris Herald for a few months. Travelled over the western states as a hobo, was a bartender in a Mississippi levee camp, acted as a general with c.o.xey's Army, became a crime reporter for the Marion Star, owned by Senator Harding, Sub-editor of the Columbus Dispatch, Labor Editor of the N. Y. Journal, an investigator of crime in the Chicago slums, a freelance in San Francisco, and editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. Lived with the natives in Hawaii, published a newspaper in Manila, spent eight years as Far Eastern correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, went through the Russo-j.a.panese War, returned to Europe as a correspondent, spent some years on a fruit ranch in California, engaged in politics, owned two newspapers, and finally lived as a beachcomber in Tahiti, the Society Islands, the Paumoto Islands and Marquesan Islands. During 1920 he was in New York and wrote "White Shadows in the South Seas." He has now returned to Asia, leaving another book, "Drifting Among South Sea Isles,"

which is to be published immediately.

*Jade Bracelet of Ah Queen.

#"O'Grady, R."# is a pen name of a lady who lives in Des Moines, Ia. She is a graduate of the State University of Iowa, and is now engaged in newspaper work.

Brothers.

#O'Hagan, Anne.# Born in Washington, D. C. Graduate of Boston University. Since engaged on newspaper and magazine work. First story published about 1898. Chief interests: Suffrage and housekeeping. Married in March, 1908, to Francis A. Shinn. Lives in New York City.

Return.

(45) #O'Higgins, Harvey J.# (_for biography, see 1917_).

Story of Big Dan Reilly.

*Story of Mrs. Murchison.

Strange Case of Warden Jupp.

(5) #Oppenheim, James# (_for biography, see 1918_).

*Rending.

#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, Ma.s.s., 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 pa.s.ses 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: "j.a.panese Impressions," by Couchoud, 1920.