Arlo Bates | |
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Born | |
Died | August 25, 1918[1] | (aged 67)
Alma mater | Bowdoin College |
Spouse | Harriet Leonora Vose (d. 1886)[1] |
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Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.
Biography
Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.[2]
List of works
Novels:
- The Pagans (1884)[3]
- The Wheel of Fire (1885)
- The Philistines (1888)[4]
- Albrecht (1890)
- The Puritans (1899)[5]
- Love in a Cloud (1900)
Collected Poems:
- Berries of the Brier (1886)
- Sonnets in Shadow, (1887)
- a Poet and his Self (1891)
- Told in the Gate (1892)
- The Torchbearers (1894)
- Under the Beech Tree (1899)
Collected Criticisms:
- Talks on Writing English (1897)
- Talks on the Study of Literature (1898)
- The Diary of a Saint (1902)
- Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)
Collected Stories:
- The Intoxicated Ghost (1908)
In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.
Notes
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References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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External links
Media related to Arlo Bates at Wikimedia Commons
- Arlo Bates papers at Bowdoin College
- Works by Arlo Bates at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Arlo Bates at the Internet Archive
- Works by Arlo Bates at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1850 births
- 1918 deaths
- American newspaper editors
- 19th-century American novelists
- Novelists from Massachusetts
- Bowdoin College alumni
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
- People from East Machias, Maine
- American male novelists
- 19th-century American male writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters