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Harry Wilson was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels Ruggles of Red Gap and Merton of the Movies. His novel Bunker Bean helped popularize the term flapper.
Background
Harry Wilson was born on May 1, 1867 in Oregon, Illinois, United States; the son of Samuel, a newspaper publisher and Adeline (Kidder) Wilson. A severe auto accident in 1932 greatly affected his health during his remaining years, and he died of a brain hemorrhage on June 28, 1939 in Carmel.
Education
Harry Wilson had to leave school at the age of sixteen upon the death of his father Samuel Wilson, who was a newspaper publisher. He was died of a brain hemorrhage.
Career
Samuel was a newspaper publisher, and Harry learned to set type at an early age. His career of a stenographer began after leaving home at sixteen. He worked his way west through Topeka, Omaha, Denver, and eventually to California. He was a contributor to the histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft, and became the private secretary to Virgil Bogue.
In December 1886, Wilson's story The Elusive Dollar Bill was accepted by Puck magazine. He continued to contribute to Puck and became assistant editor in 1892. Henry Cuyler Bunner died in 1896 and Wilson replaced him as editor. The publication of The Spenders allowed Wilson to quit Puck in 1902 and devote himself full-time to writing.
Wilson returned to New York where he met Booth Tarkington in 1904, and Tarkington and Wilson traveled together to Europe in 1905. The two completed the play The Man from Home in 1906 in Paris. The play was a resounding success and was followed by more collaborations with Tarkington, but none repeated the success of the first.Wilson was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1908.
Wilson returned from Europe and settled permanently into the Bohemian colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, which included among its artists and literati Jack London, Mary Hunter Austin, George Sterling, Upton Sinclair, Xavier Martinez, Ambrose Bierce, Alice MacGowan, Sinclair Lewis, Francis McComas, and Arnold Genthe. It was during this period that Wilson wrote the books for which he is most well known, Bunker Bean in 1913 and Ruggles of Red Gap in 1915. After a brief stint in Hollywood, he composed Merton of the Movies in 1922.
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1922
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Quotations:
"I had to live ten years in New York. It was then a simple town, with few street lights north of Forty-second street. Now the place is pretty terrible to me, perhaps the ugliest city in the world. I decided that the only way to get out of New York was to write a successful novel. So I tried with The Spenders and when I got a substantial advance from publishers, I quit my job and beat it for the high hills of Colorado".
Connections
He was married to Wilbertine Teters Worden in 1898 ans then divorced in 1900; married to Rose Cecil O’Neill Latham, an author and illustrator, creator of the Kewpie doll in 1902 , then divorced in 1907; married to Helen MacGowan Cooke in 1912, and divorced in 1927. He had 2 children (third marriage): Harry Leon and Helen Charis.