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Bates, Arlo (1850 - 1918)
Genre: Drama/Theatre/Film, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Arlo Bates, a poet, novelist, and English professor, was born in East Machias, Maine, on 16 Dec. 1850 and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876, receiving a Master's degree in 1879. He edited the Boston Sunday Courier from 1880-1893, then became an English professor at M.I.T. (from 1893-1915), all the while writing poems, lyrics, stories, plays, articles, and novels. Bates was married to Harriet Lenora Vose (1856-1886), a writer whose pseudonym was Eleanor Putnum; Bates and Vose collaborated on a novel, Prince Vance, finished the year she died, 1886. Bates himself died on 24 Aug. 1918.
Selected Bibliography
Poetry
- Sonnets in Shadow (1887)
- The Poet and His Self (1891)
Drama
- Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree (1900)
- A Mothers' Meeting (1909)
Novels and Stories
- Patty's Perversities (1881)
- A Wheel of Fire (1885)
- Berries of the Brier (1886)
- A Lad's Love (1887)
- Prince Vince: the story of a prince with a court in his box (1888), with his wife, Harriet Vose
- The Pagans (1888/1970)
- The Philistines (1889/1970)
- In the Bundle of Time (1893/1970)
- The Puritans (1898/1968)
- The Intoxicated Ghost, and other stories (1908/1972)
Non-Fiction, Articles, etc.
- edited Old Salem (1886), written by Eleanor Putnam, pseudonym for Harriet Vose, his wife
- Talks on Writing English (1896)
- Talks on the Study of Literature (1897/1925)
- Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)