Arlo Bates
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):
- Patty's perversities , 1881 ( online version )
- F. Seymour Haden and engraving , 1882
- Mr. Jacobs , 1883 ( online version )
- Various phases of American art , 1883
- Berries of the brier , 1886 ( online version )
- The Pagans , 1884 ( online version )
- A lad's love , 1887
- Sonnets in shadow , 1887 ( online version )
- The Philistines , 1889 ( online version )
- Albrecht , 1890 ( online version )
- A book o 'nine tales , 1891 ( online version )
- The poet and his self , 1891 ( online version )
- Told in the gate , 1892 ( online version )
- In The Bundle Of Tim , 1893
- The torch-bearers , 1894 ( online version )
- Talks on writing English , 1896 ( online version )
- A gentle jury , 1897 ( online version )
- The Puritans , 1898 ( online version )
- Under the beech tree , 1899 ( online version )
- Love in a cloud , 1900 ( online version )
- The diary of a saint , 1902 ( online version )
- A business meeting , 1905 ( online version )
- Talks on teaching literature , 1906
- Her deaf ear , 1907 ( online version )
- The intoxicated ghost , 1908 ( online version )
- A mothers' meeting , 1909 ( online version )
- The supreme gift , 1911 ( online version )
- The Boston Mother Goose , 1916
Web links
- Entry (prabook.com)
- Entry in Open Library
- Arlo Bates in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900–1949 on the homepage of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- ^ Members: Arlo Bates. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Oric Bates on findagrave.com, accessed December 3, 2018
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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 |