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Charles Macomb Flandrau was an American author and essayist.
Background
He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the older of two sons of Charles Eugene Flandrau, pioneer, jurist, and historian of his state, and his second wife, Rebecca Blair (McClure) Riddle Flandrau. He had two older half-sisters, the daughters of his father's first marriage, and a half-brother, John Wallace Riddle, later a diplomat, the son of his mother's first marriage.
Education
Flandrau enjoyed a well-favored youth and the benefits of foreign travel and entered Harvard University in 1891.
The first such volume to treat college life realistically, to examine "rounders, poseurs, and butterflies" rather than describe innocuous college pranks, it stirred up wide appreciation of its literary virtues, as well as resentment of its candor.
Career
As an undergraduate he wrote stories, sketches, and verse for the Harvard Advocate and later for the Harvard Monthly. His writings were striking for their maturity of expression, the judicious quality of his observations, and his interest in human types generally, as well as in Harvard problems of status and adjustment.
Although Flandrau knew best the more exclusive social elements among the students, he even then showed a democratic sense of proportion which gave solidity and a universal touch to relatively narrow subject matter.
Recognized as outstanding among a group of campus writers which included William Vaughn Moody and Norman Hapgood, he received major campus editorial honors. Upon graduation, Flandrau tutored freshmen in English at Harvard for a year, was a reader for the Youth's Companion, and helped to edit the Northwestern Miller, a Minneapolis trade journal.
In 1897 he was asked to prepare some stories of Harvard life; his Harvard Episodes, issued that year, was a commercial and literary success.
The first such volume to treat college life realistically, to examine "rounders, poseurs, and butterflies" rather than describe innocuous college pranks, it stirred up wide appreciation of its literary virtues, as well as resentment of its candor.
On the invitation of George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Flandrau wrote another college story, The Diary of a Freshman. Serialized in the Post, published in book form in 1901, and reprinted in 1912 and 1931, it proved a charming and witty work which made less of an effort than its predecessor to treat unconventional attitudes and ideas.
Much the same could be said of Sophomores Abroad (1935), also printed originally in the Saturday Evening Post.
Meanwhile Flandrau had abandoned professional ambitions and with a relatively small but secure competency had become a traveler.
He had already gone around the world in 1898, and by 1910 he had lived for periods in Mexico, Russia, Finland, and France. His time between travels he spent in St. Paul with his mother; after her death he lived, as he put it emphatically, "absolutely alone. "
In 1908 he published Viva Mexico! , an unorthodox account of that country's life and character as seen from his brother Blair's coffee plantation.
Kept in print by readers who enjoyed its prose as well as its usefulness to travelers, Viva Mexico! was praised as a classic by such disparate critics as Alexander Woollcott (who considered Flandrau "one of the great under-writers" of literature), Philip Guedalla, Owen Wister, and Paul Rosenfeld. Sinclair Lewis, a fellow-Minnesotan, acknowledged with pride his indebtedness to Flandrau. Prejudices (1911) reproduced essays Flandrau had written for the Bellman.
A sufferer from chronic myocarditis and nephritis, he died in St. Paul of acute mesenteric thrombosis and was buried in Oakland Cemetery there. His death evoked notice of a substantial style and point of view, comparison with Max Beerbohm, and recollection of the enduring qualities of Viva Mexico.
Flandrau's virtues of clarity and unaffectedness, his disinterested acceptance of the unknown and unfamiliar, and his almost conversational tone enabled him to lead his reader easily through intricate matters of high politics, social classes, and economic relations. Like his contemporary Finley Peter Dunne, Flandrau hated cant and was fascinated by the permutations of human behavior. He treated equally his peasants, Mexicans of elite status, and Americans, without patronizing them but also without passing over their weaknesses and peccadilloes.
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It was notable, among other things, for "Wanderlust, " a raw, realistic account of an American fatally trapped in Mexico by poverty; a discussion of Ann Veronica, by H. G. Wells, whom Flandrau believed great, though he had no wish to emulate him; and the forthright admission by Flandrau that "I have loved more dogs than I have loved human beings. "
Membership
He was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and The Delphic Club.
Personality
Flandrau's handsome and distinguished appearance accompanied him into old age.
Connections
Although he maintained a small but loyal circle of friends and relatives, he cherished his privacy; he never married.