Pennsylvania-born in 1826, he penned "Swanee River" only 25 years later
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Stephen Foster - Wikipedia  Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826  January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh! Susanna", ... Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote...
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Stephen Collins Foster Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  The American composer Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) was one of the first ... Stephen Foster was born in Lawrenceville, Pa., near Pittsburgh, on July 4, 1826. ... it was still a frontier settlement; later he became a successful businessman. ... About the age of 10 he began composing tunes, and at 17 he wrote his first...
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Stephen Foster dies - Jan 13, 1864 - HISTORY.com  Stephen Foster was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1826the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He developed...
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Test 4: People Flashcards | Quizlet  He later created his own band and developed his own signature style, known ... Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Pennsylvania facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Five years later, the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased the State Works, eliminating ..... Not only did he continue to attract business to Pennsylvania, but he also ... one year; senators must be at least 25 years old, representatives at least 21. ...... One of America's first important songwriters, Stephen Foster, was born in 1826 in...
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Owen Wister, Western Writer www.cowboypoetry.com Cowboy Poetry  Classic Cowboy Poetry ... In Wister's best known book, The Virginian, Horseman of the Plains, the lead-up is ... With those diaries at hand, he wrote The Virginian in 1902. ... Wister dedicated his Western masterpiece to his friend Teddy Roosevelt and some ... [Wister] continued: 'The fact that it was published in a collection of...
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Mark Twain - Writer - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... A man who wore many hats, adventurer and author Mark Twain had a ... Mississippi River, Mark Twain explored the American soul with wit, buoyancy, ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, .... In 1883 he put out Life on the Mississippi, an interesting but safe travel book.
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Mark Twain - Writer - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... A man who wore many hats, adventurer and author Mark Twain had a ... of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ... Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. ... on to author several novels, including two major classics of American ... His answer: the great American West.
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Theodore Dreiser | American author | Britannica.com  ... of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life ... Dreiser began writing his first novel, Sister Carrie, in 1899 at the suggestion of a ... on the life of the American transportation magnate Charles T. Yerkes, The Financier ... In 1925 Dreiser's first novel in a decade, An American Tragedy, based on a...
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Steinbeck, John (27 February 1902  20 December 1968 ...  BOOKS: Cup of Gold (New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929; London: Heinemann, 1937); .... That the Arthurian legendswhich were Steinbeck's first childhood literary ... the young man who becomes Sir Henry Morgan is an unworthy quester, and .... California in the 1930s; other aspects of the novel are significantly fictional.
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Original versions of Old Folks at Home written by Stephen Foster ...  The song Old Folks at Home was written by Stephen Foster and. ... Publication date: 1851; Language: English; Comments: Also known as "Swanee River",...
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Mythology and Folklore in Robert Penn Warren's Early Fiction  Dec 1, 2009 ... Although Robert Penn Warren's first novel was published in 1939 and his poetic ...... cycles to see if they survive in the finished 1946 edition. .... When Jack Burden first meets Willie in Slade's poolhall, Stark is dressed ..... there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes.
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On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away - Wikipedia  "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" was among the best-selling songs of the 19th century, earning over $100,000 from sheet-music revenues. Written and composed by American songwriter Paul Dresser, it was ... His younger brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser, publicly claimed to have authored part of the song, but the...
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Life and work | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems Wikipedia ...  [7] He published his first poem, a patriotic and historical four-stanza poem called ... the 15-year-old Longfellow enrolled at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, along ... [17] Whatever the motivation, he began his tour of Europe in May 1826 .... and took a six-month leave of absence from Harvard to attend a health spa in the...
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My God! Have I missed him? | Teaching American History  May 27, 2012 ... While the water ran, however, two men gathered along one of its banks just as the sun ... On the morning of Friday, May 30, 1806, the Red River was to play witness to the duel between Charles Dickinson and Andrew Jackson. ... Through much of their marriage, Andrew and Rachel Jackson faced constant...
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John Steinbeck - Wikipedia  John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902  December 20, 1968) was an American author of .... In 1933 Steinbeck published The Red Pony, a 100-page, four-chapter story weaving in memories of Steinbeck's childhood. .... Steinbeck's last novel, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), examines moral decline in America.
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Mark Twain Visits Tennessee - Georgetown College  Mar 16, 2000 ... During his years as a riverboat man, 1857-1861, he must have visited it a number ... It was the Pennsylvania which was to bring about Sam Clemens' most famous ... The 1864 attack on Fort Pillow by Confederate forces called forth bitter ... Horace Bixby (the "lightning pilot" who taught Sam the river) was the...
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Excerpt by Mark Twain | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor  Nov 30, 2009 ... The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor: 'Excerpt' by Mark Twain, and the ... magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense ... It was on this day in 1900 that Oscar Wilde (books by this author) died ... It's the birthday of a writer who described life in the Mississippi River...
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Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807 - EyeWitness to History  Painter, inventor and engineer, Robert Fulton was a man of many talents. ... early as 1787, American John Fitch had sailed a steamboat on the Delaware River. ... by history although there is no evidence that Fulton used this name) was an odd...
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Peter Wallner, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's ... - Booknotes  Nov 28, 2004 ... And the reason for two volumes is that his first -- he had a 25-year career in public life before he ever became president, and I felt that it was...
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The Virginian is published - May 28, 1902 - HISTORY.com  Born into a prominent Philadelphia family, the young Wister was expected to grow up to ... sang in choir, and eventually decided to become a classical composer. ... After The Virginian, Wister wrote no more Western novels, though he did ... party of French and Indian scouts in southwest Pennsylvania as Virginia attempts to...