Julian Leonard Street (April 12, 1879–February 19, 1947) was an

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author, born in

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. He was a reporter on the New York ''

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(later Evening Mail'') in 1899 and had charge of its dramatic department in 1900–01. His writings include the following: * ''My Enemy the Motor'' (1908) * ''The Need of Change'' (1909; second edition, 1914) - Made into 1939 film I'm from Missouri. * ''Paris à la Carte'' (1912) * ''Ship-Bored'' (1912) * ''The Goldfish'' (1912) * ''Welcome to Our City'' (1913) * ''Abroad at Home'' (1914): A book of "American impressions" written after Street travelled "some five thousand miles and visited twenty cities" within his country. * ''American Adventures: A Second Trip "Abroad at Home".'' (1917) * ''Mysterious Japan'' (1922) * ''Tides'' (1926) He made contributions to magazines. Street twice won an

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. His short story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess," published in ''Redbook'' and anthologized in ''Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories 1919–1934,'' won the award in 1925. The story was adapted as the 1926

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silent film ''So's Your Old Man.'' In 1915 Street published a book on

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, called ''The Most Interesting American''. He is credited with being the art critic who wrote that the painting exhibited at the 1913

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called '' Nude Descending a Staircase,'' resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory." Street gained a measure of notoriety following a 1914 article in ''

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'' describing the red-light district along Myers Avenue in Cripple Creek. The Cripple Creek city fathers, unamused, responded by renaming Myers Avenue to Julian Street. Street moved to

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in the 1920s. The

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houses his manuscript collection and a library is named after him there.

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Julian Street manuscript collection
at

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Julian L. Street Papers on Theodore Roosevelt
at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library,

Time Magazine story of December, 1923
* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Street, Julian Leonard 1879 births 1947 deaths American humorists O. Henry Award winners Theodore Roosevelt Writers from Chicago Writers from New York City

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