Frank R. Stockton

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Frank R. Stockton

Frank Richard Stockton (born April 5, 1834 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † April 20, 1902 in Washington, DC ) was an American writer and humorist .

Stockton avoided the didactic moralization of his children's stories. Instead, he dealt with the vices like greed, violence, abuse of power and other human weaknesses with humor and described the adventures of his characters in a charming and factual way in stories like The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885) or The Bee-Man of Orn ( 1887).

Life

Frank Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister. At the age of five he was partially paralyzed by a leg injury and so his talent as a writer showed at an early age. Although he won a writing contest in high school , his father advised against a writing career. So he learned a printing trade and became a wood cutter , while his younger brother trained as a copper engraver . Together they opened a store in New York City . After the death of his father and his marriage in 1860 to the teacher Mary Ann Edwards Tuttle, he moved with his wife to Burlington, New Jersey , where he produced his first literary works. The couple later moved to Nutley, New Jersey.

In 1867 he moved back to Philadelphia to write for a newspaper founded by his brother. His first fairy tale, Ting-a-ling , was published in Riverside Magazine that year . His first book collection appeared in 1870. He was also the editor of Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s . [3] Around 1899 he moved to Charles Town, West Virginia. In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Stockton died of a cerebral hemorrhage in April 1902 and is buried in The Woodlands, Philadelphia.

Fonts

  • Rudder Grange
  • The lady - or the tiger? (“The Lady, or the Tiger?”) Was his best-known short story, first published in 1882 in The Century magazine . Stockton is relatively unknown in German-speaking countries. The short story was published by Manesse Verlag in 1982, together with other stories, translated from the American by Elisabeth Schnack .
  • The Story of Viteau , 1884
  • The Hundredth Man , 1886
  • The book The Bee-Man of Orn (1887) is a mixture of fairy tale and legend.
  • The Great War Syndicate Dodd , 1889
  • The House of Martha , 1891
  • Mrs. Cliff's Yacht , 1896
  • About the North Pole and the Earth's core appeared in 1899 as a shortened version of the novel The Great Stone of Sardis from 1898 in the magazine Illustrirte Welt as a sequel story. It was republished as a reprint in the private print Der Uparchäologe - Fachzeitschrift für Uparchäologie , issue 1/2008
  • A Bicycle of Cathay , 1900
  • Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter , 1901
  • The Captain's Toll-Gate , 1903
  • The Magic Egg and Other Stories , 1908
  • The Lost Dryad , 1912
  • The Novels and Stories , 23 Vol., 1899-1904
  • Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Nutley Hall of Fame at web.archive.org, accessed February 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Frank R. Stockton at books.google.de, accessed on February 27, 2019.
  3. ^ Members: Frank R. Stockton. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Death of Frank R. Stockton (English)
personal data
SURNAME Stockton, Frank R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockton, Frank Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and humorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1902
Place of death Washington, DC