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Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins was born on November 14, 1876, in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of Joseph P. and Isabella Stephenson O'Higgins.
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Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
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Harvey O'Higgins received his education in the common schools and was a member of the class of 1897 at the University of Toronto. He left the University without a degree to begin his career as a journalist.
Career
Harvey O'Higgins began writing for American periodicals, chiefly Scribner's, the Century, McClure's, Collier's, and Everybody's, short detective stories and, later, articles on political and social questions. The sentiment and the love of common types apparent in the short stories appeared in his first full-length works such as The Smoke-Eaters (1905), Don-a-Dreams (1906), A Grand Army Man (1908), and Old Clinkers (1909).
Harvey's success as a practical journalist led naturally to a series of volumes on matters of contemporary political or sociological interest. These he did in collaboration with others possessed of special knowledge in the fields presented. The first, The Beast (1910), written with Judge Ben B. Lindsey, deals with the social environment of city-bred youth and presents the reform measures advocated by Judge Lindsey. This volume was followed by Under the Prophet in Utah (1911), with Frank J. Cannon, dealing with the organization and functioning of the Mormon Church; On the Hiring Line (1909), with Harriet Ford; The Doughboy's Religion (1920), with Ben B. Lindsey; and The American Mind in Action (1924), with Dr. Edward H. Reade, an attempt to psychoanalyze several eminent Americans. The last-mentioned volume indicates a turning point in O'Higgins' career.
Serious illness caused O'Higgins to seek various methods of cure, but the one that seemed to him most effective was that offered by psychoanalysis. He presented a general though spirited view of the subject in The Secret Springs (1920) but first applied it in a truly literary manner in Some Distinguished Americans (1922) in which he depicted with characteristic clarity and economy a series of characters motivated by the unconscious. His literary use of the psychoanalytic method was more effective than his application of it to actual persons in The American Mind in Action. And although he was deeply interested in his newly found literary mode he was not carried to any extreme by his enthusiasm.
A good journalist, and the author of many volumes designed to popularize special information, O'Higgins never became a press agent. His true literary instinct saved him and enabled him finally to produce his best work in Julie Crane (1924) and Clara Barron (1926), mature and sympathetic studies of modern American women. In these novels he was master not alone of his sure technique but also of his special concepts of character.
In collaboration with Harriet Ford, he wrote several successful plays: The Argyle Case (1912), a detective drama in which W. J. Burns assisted, The Dummy (copyrighted in 1913 under the title Kidnapped), a detective comedy, Polygamy (1914), a tense drama of marriage under Mormonism, and Main Street (1921), which, though not important as drama, enjoyed much popular favor. The last was an endeavor to dramatize the novel by Sinclair Lewis.
Throughout his life O'Higgins gave himself constantly and generously to every cause that affected the well-being and dignity of his craft. He devoted himself most assiduously to the work of the Authors' League with which he was actively associated from its establishment until his death. Officially through the League and unofficially through innumerable personal contacts with young authors he worked for the advancement and protection of American writers with a devotion and selflessness gratefully remembered by his co-workers.
During the World War (1917 - 18) he entered the government service under George Creel as associate chairman of the Committee of Public Information. His special task was to answer the propaganda designed to arouse racial animosities within the United States.
Achievements
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Harvey O'Higgins's most famous works are: His Mother (1909); In the Matter of Art (1909); Tammany's Tithes (1906); The Devil's Doings (1908); The Hired Man (1908); Some Distinguished Americans (1922); The American Mind in Action (1924); Under the Prophet in Utah (1911); On the Hiring Line (1909); The Doughboy's Religion (1920); The Argyle Case (1912); Polygamy (1914); Main Street (1921), etc.
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Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department (Classic Reprint)
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Don-a-dreams; a Story of Love and Youth
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Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
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The Smoke-Eaters: The Story of a Fire Crew
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The Beast
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The Argyle Case
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Some Distinguished Americans: Imaginary Portraits
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His Mother (Classic Reprint)
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A Grand Army Man
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Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department (Classic Reprint)
Membership
During the World War (1917 - 18), Harvey O'Higgins was an associate chairman of the Committee of Public Information.
Personality
Harvey O'Higgins was a man of great patience, humanity and inherent liberalism, that enabled him to see more clearly and to speak more temperately on highly controverted matters. O'Higgins was a man of great personal charm, and perhaps in this fact lies his truest claim to fame.
Connections
In July 1901 Harvey O'Higgins married Anna G. Williams.
