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George Ade (born February 9, 1866 in Kentland , Indiana , † May 16, 1944 in Brook , Indiana) was an American writer , who is best known for the humorous fables in slang .
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Life
Ade was one of seven children from a farmer couple. Even the young George showed more interest in books than in ordering a farm. Logically, he studied at Purdue University , after graduating in 1887, he first worked as a reporter for the newspaper Lafayette Call . In 1890 he became a member of the editorial board of the Chicago Morning News , which later became the Chicago Record . Here Ade wrote the column Stories of the Streets and of the Town , in which he humorously portrayed everyday life in Chicago . Recurring characters in these stories were Artie, the delivery man, Doc Horne, a well-mannered liar, and Pink Marsh, a black shoeshine boy.
Ade's best-known stories, the Fables in Slang , originally appeared in this column, and in 1899 for the first time in book form. The growing popularity of Ades contributions was explained above all by the fact that the writer in them sympathetically portrayed the life of the “little man”, the average American. Ades fables , the country's marketed and Essanay were released as a film series (ten times led Ade himself director), earned him the nickname Aesop Indiana one.
Ade also wrote plays and musicals for Broadway with varying success . After twelve years in Chicago, Ade, who had become very wealthy through his books and land holdings, built himself a stately Tudor-style house , Hazelden Farm , where he held public festivals. There the politically active author also hosted William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt and in 1919 hosted a celebration in honor of returning soldiers.
Since 1908 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
To the work
Ade's role model was Mark Twain ; like him, he wanted to tell his stories in a typically American language. In the fables in slang , he tried to do this through the targeted use of colloquial language . Ades stories are friendly satires about certain types of American society, such as the climber. Almost all of the stories end with an ironically formulated moral (e.g. hard work and perseverance bring a sure reward ) and emphasize the difference between the traditional virtues of rural life, with which Ade grew up, and the striving for quick material success of the city dwellers.
Works
- Artie. A Story of the Streets and Town (1896)
- Pink Marsh. A Story of the Streets and Town (1897)
- Doc Horne (1899)
- Fables in Slang (1899)
- More Fables (1900)
- American Vacations in Europe (1901)
- Forty Modern Fables (1901)
- In Babel. Stories of Chicago (1903)
- Breaking into Society (1904)
- Old Town (1909)
- I remember him when. A Hoosier Fable Dealing with the Happy Days of Away Back Yonder (1910)
- Hoosier Hand Book and True Guide for the Returning Exile (1911)
- Verses and Jingles (1911)
- Ade's Fables (1914)
- Hand-made Fables (1920)
- On the Indiana Trail (1930)
- Thirty Fables in Slang (1933)
- One Afternoon with Mark Twain (1939)
- Notes and Reminiscences (1940)
Web links
- Farewell to Purdue University ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Goodbye to the Indiana Historical Society
- Ade to Our Land, Our Literature ( Memento from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goodbye, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kentland , Indiana , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1944 |
| Place of death | Brook , Indiana , USA |