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Encyclopedia > George Barr McCutcheon

George Barr McCutcheon (18661928) was an American novelist and playwright. 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ...


Works

His novels include:

  • Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind a Throne (1901)
  • Brewster's Millions (1902)
  • Castle Craneycrow (1902)
  • The Sherrods (1903)
  • Beverly of Graustark (1904)
  • The Day of the Dog (1904)
  • The Purple Parasol (1905)
  • Jane Cable (1905)
  • Cowardice Court (1906)
  • Nedra (1906)
  • The Flyers (1907)
  • The Daughter of Anderson Crow (1907)
  • The Husbands of Edith (1908),
  • The Man from Brodney's (1908)
  • Truxton King: A Story of Graustark (1909)
  • The Prince of Graustark (1914)
  • Viola Gwyn (1922)
  • East of the Setting Sun (1924)
  • Kindling and Ashes (1926)
  • The Inn of the Hawk and the Raven (1927)

His plays include: Graustark is a fictional country in Eastern Europe used as a setting for several novels by George Barr McCutcheon. ... Brewsters Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902. ...

  • Brood House
  • Mary Midthorne (1911)
  • Anderson Crow, Detective (1920)

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Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - George Barr McCutcheon (1004 words)
McCutcheon was born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana.
George Barr McCutcheon was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1866 to John Barr McCutcheon and Clara Glick.
McCutcheon's writings can be used to understand the ways people were changed as a result of the land, and how the land was changed through the actions of people in the early twentieth century.
George Barr McCutcheon Papers (409 words)
Series II is made up of papers from various members of the McCutcheon family, including a eulogy for Ben McCutcheon, who died in 1934, and a review of John McCutcheon Raleigh's book Behind the Nazi Front (1940).
The bulk of the papers are those of McCutcheon's sister, Jessie McCutcheon Nelson.
Also included in the McCutcheon papers are two draft third-party works by Julian Street and Louise Closser Hale, and a book inventory that may be of McCutcheon's personal library.
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