Arlo Bates

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Arlo Bates (born December 16, 1850 in East Machias , Maine , † August 26, 1918 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American journalist , writer and university professor .

Life

Alan Bates, son of the doctor Niran Bates and his wife Susan Thaxter Bates, completed an undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College after attending the Washington Academy , which he completed in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate course with a Master of Arts (MA). He then worked between 1878 and 1879, first as an editor for the daily newspaper Broadside and from 1880 to 1893 as editor of the daily newspaper Boston Courier . He was also a correspondent for The Providence Journal and Chicago Tribune . In 1893 he took over a professorship for English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1905 .

His son Oric Bates (1883-1918) emerged from his marriage in 1882 to the writer Harriet Leonora Vose Bates , who died in 1886 and daughter of the railway engineer George L. Vose .

Publications

In addition to his work as a journalist and university lecturer, Bates wrote numerous novels , volumes of poetry and short stories , but also books critical of literature . His works include the novels The Pagans (1884), The Philistines (1889) and The Puritans (1898):

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900–1949 on the homepage of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  2. ^ Members: Arlo Bates. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Oric Bates on findagrave.com, accessed December 3, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bates, Arlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bates, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, journalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH East Machias , Maine
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1918
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts