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311:. For his column, Edson adopted the persona of an Ozark mountaineer commenting on Manhattan life from a country perspective. In 1914, after Adams left the paper, Edson was selected to take over his column, “Always in Good Humor.” Edson wrote the column for less than a year, giving it up to return to Arkansas.
180:. The Edson side of the family also dates to early colonial times, with Deacon Samuel Edson arriving in Salem, Massachusetts in 1639. Edson's father was a wealthy farmer and merchant, but imposed an austere lifestyle on his family. In 1918, Edson's mother successfully sued his father for half of his net worth.
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described it as the “freakish self-history” of a man "with passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid
Americana to relate… The father looms as a monument of malicious, brooding egotism…" On the other hand, O. O. McIntyre called it “…as honest a book as ever written,”
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Charleston for New York in 1927 in an attempt to revive his career, but his recent publishing failure and long absence from the city undermined his efforts. Times were changing as well, and his style of writing was losing its appeal. He earned some money by ghostwriting the story of prize
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was a critical failure, but despite Edson's complaint, better editing would not have disposed critics more kindly to the story he chose to tell. The book catalogs the pretentious and petty tendencies of the narrator's
Puritan ancestors, focusing on his father as the main villain. Edson also ascribes
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was published in 1930 and still in print in 1960, but Edson received no royalties. By the end of his final stay in New York, Edson was destitute. Robert Marks reported to a mutual acquaintance: “I feel sorry as hell for old Edson. I've seen him fairly often, and while I like him a lot I think he's
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Arkansas Ozarks in 1907 with the intention of starting an artists' and writers' colony. Although at least ten people spent time there, most soon returned to the city. Edson left but regularly returned to his farm there over the next decade, observing the
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Anonymous, with the idea that curiosity about the identity of the author would stimulate sales. In a 1928 letter to Robert Marks, a Charleston friend, Edson vented his frustration at how the book had been handled. "It needs revision damn badly. For instance,
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these traits to his New York colleague
Franklin P. Adams, exposing him as a Chicago native who adopted the tastes, dress, and accent of the Harvard elite only upon arrival in New York. Adams was a popular columnist at the time and one of the founders of the
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found Edson living on a government relief check in a Topeka railroader's hotel slated for demolition. The reporter wrote a feature on Edson, presenting him as a once-famous columnist now facing eviction and an uncertain future. The
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Charleston, South Carolina with the intention of giving up newspaper work to write serious literature. He worked on his autobiography, but also became associate editor for the
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Greenwich Village, especially Guido Bruno, "the Barnum of Bohemia," who turned his Washington Square garret into a tourist attraction and was receiving financial backing from the wife and son of the owner of the
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pretty hopeless. He is neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring. He has made enemies of everyone, has no practical sense, and little social poise.”
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670:(First ed.). Filley, Nebraska: The Filley Spotlight. p. 27.
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889:. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books. pp. 255–259.
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930:"The Great American Ass": An autobiography
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605:Sunflowers,: A Book of Kansas Poems
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