Background
Zile, Edward Sims Van was born on May 2, 1863 in Troy, New York, United States. Son of Oscar Edward and Sarah M. (Perry) V.
Zile, Edward Sims Van was born on May 2, 1863 in Troy, New York, United States. Son of Oscar Edward and Sarah M. (Perry) V.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Connecticut, 1884, Master of Arts, 1887, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1903.
He published fiction, non-fiction, biographies, a commentary on war, and a history of the early days of movies. In 1904, in an essay about him, Book News Biographies said "for the past ten years Mr. Van Zile has been known to the reading public through many short stories, novelettes and a few novels".
He was born on May 2, 1863 in Troy, New York to Oscar Edward Van Zile and Sarah Melinda Perry.
He was a descendant of Hollanders who came to America in the 17th century. As a boy he read everything he could on every subject.
He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1884. In 1904 the college gave him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
In addition to several books and articles, he wrote a libretto for a musical comedy.
They had a daughter, Winifred Van Zile (1902–1902). He died on May 29, 1931 of a stroke at his home at 439 East Fifty-first Street in Manhattan, New York City. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.
The last of the Van Slacks.
A story of to-day (1889)
A magnetic man and other stories (1890)
Don Miguel, and other stories (1891)
The Manhattaners. A story of the hour (1900)
A duke and his double (1903).
Married Mary Morgan Bulkeley, December 8, 1886.