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He was born on May 24, 1880 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States, seventh of nine children of John B. and Lucy F. (Nichols) Smith.
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He was born on May 24, 1880 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States, seventh of nine children of John B. and Lucy F. (Nichols) Smith.
He attended the public schools in New Britain and in 1898 entered Williams College. There he specialized in biology, studied one summer at Woods Hole. He had post-graduate work in English at Harvard, where he received the degree of M. A. in 1904.
He taught for a few months in the district school at Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut. The year after graduation (1902 - 03) he was assistant in the biological laboratory. After a year's post-graduate work at Harvard, he became instructor in English composition (1904 - 05) at Oberlin.
His purpose was set toward writing, however, and after a year he gave up teaching and declined every later inducement to return to it. A year of free lancing in New York City was followed by one on the editorial staff of the Atlantic Monthly and several more in New York. In 1909, however, after a severe illness, he retired from the city, whose thrill he loved while its din tormented his exacerbated nerves, to the peaceful surroundings of home in Berlin, Connecticut. Here, while still near enough to permit frequent visits to the metropolis, he was able to be with his family.
In 1908 appeared his first novel, Amedie's Son, an idyllic tale of the Cape Breton coast. This was followed in 1910 by Enchanted Ground, a novel of New York City. Then, in 1910-11, came the extraordinary success of his comedy, Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, written for Mrs.
His plays Blackbirds, Suki, and Oh! Imogen were not successful; but in 1917 A Tailor-Made Man repeated the success of Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh and The Little Teacher, produced in 1918, was also successful. Battling with constant ill health, he had won a degree of fame and fortune, and, what was more dear to him, a command of the playwright's craft, when the World War interrupted his career.
Soon after the entrance of the United States into the war he gave up writing and, incidentally, an early opportunity to have The Little Teacher produced, in order to devote himself to the study of Nova Scotian sphagnum moss for use in surgical dressings. As a result he became convinced of the utility of this material and, almost single-handed, secured its adoption. He "employed helpers, found and prepared the moss, arranged hospital demonstrations, raced to Washington at every chance of a hearing, and finally won out" (Tompkins, post).
Having investigated Canadian resources, at his own expense, he discovered several fields of the moss in British Columbia. While engaged in this work, he was killed near Murrayville in a collision between his automobile and a train.
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Always an intense admirer of French culture from the days of a bicycle trip through France in the summer of 1903, a constant reader of French literature, with Moliere, whose picture he kept above his desk, as his dramatic ideal, he sympathized France.
He proved to be a brilliant teacher, intuitively dramatizing his work and carrying his classes with him by his spontaneous enthusiasm.
He never married.