Samuel Merwin, Sr. (6 October 1874 – 17 October 1936) was an American
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
and author.
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Biography
Merwin was born on 6 October 1874 in Evanston, Illinois to Ella B. and Orlando H. Merwin. His father was the postmaster
A postmaster is the head of an individual post office, responsible for all postal activities in a specific post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government), ...
of Evanston. In 1901, Merwin married Edna Earl Fleshiem. The couple had two sons, Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. and Banister Merwin and one adopted son, John Merwin.[
After attending Northwestern University, he worked between 1905 and 1911 as associate editor and then editor of ''Success'' magazine. In 1907 the magazine sent him to China to investigate the opium trade.
He died of a stroke while dining at The Player's Club in Manhattan on 17 October 1936.]
Publications
*''The Short Line War'' (1899) with Henry Kitchell Webster
*''Calumet "K"'' (1901) with Henry Kitchell Webster
*''The Road to Frontenac: A Romance of Early Canada'' (1901)
*''The Whip Hand'' (1903)
*''His Little World: The Story of Hunch Badeau'' (1903)
*''The Merry Anne'' (1904)
*''The Road Builders'' (1905)
*''Comrade John'' (1907) with Henry Kitchell Webster
''Drugging a Nation.''
(1908)
*''The Citadel: A Romance of Unrest'' (1912)
*'' Anthony the Absolute'' (1914)
*''The Charmed Life of Miss Austin'' (1914)
*''The Honey Bee: A Story of a Woman in Revolt'' (1915)
*''The Trufflers'' (1916)
*''Temperamental Henry: An Episodic History of the Early Life and the Young Loves of Henry Calverly, 3rd'' (1917)
*''Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd'' (1918)
*''The Passionate Pilgrim: Being the Narrative of an Oddly Dramatic Year in the Life of Henry Calverly, 3rd'' (1919)
*''Hills of Han: A Romantic Incident'' (1919)
*''In Red and Gold'' (1921)
*''Goldie Green'' (1922)
*''Hattie of Hollywood'' (serialized in ''Photoplay
''Photoplay'' was one of the first American film (another name for ''photoplay'') fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded '' Motion Picture Story,'' a magazine also directed at fans. For mo ...
'', July–December 1922)
*''Silk : A Legend as Narrated in the Journals and Correspondence of Jan Po'' (1923)
*''The Moment of Beauty'' (1925)
*''The Entertaining Angel'' (1926)
*"Old Concord, Seen through Western Spectacles" (1926)
*''Anabel at Sea'' (1927)
*''Lady Can Do'' (1929)
*''Bad Penny'' (1933)
*''Rise and Fight Againe: The Story of a Life-Long Friend'' (1935)
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1874 births
1936 deaths
19th-century American novelists
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
19th-century American male writers
20th-century American male writers