Background
Dixon, Royal was born on March 25, 1885 in Huntsville, Texas, United States. Son of Elijah and Frances Elizabeth (Watlington) Dixon.
Dixon, Royal was born on March 25, 1885 in Huntsville, Texas, United States. Son of Elijah and Frances Elizabeth (Watlington) Dixon.
Student Sam Houston State Teacher. Student of University Chicago, Columbia University.
And educated at the Sam Houston Normal Institute, Morgan Park Academy, Chicago and later as a special student at the University of Chicago. His earliest career was as a child actor and dancer trained by Adele Fox. His last theatre appearance was in 1903 as an actor with the Iroquois theater in Chicago.
He became a curator at the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago from 1905 to 1910.
He subsequently became a staff writer at the Houston Chronicle. He also made special contributions to the newspapers of New York, where he lectured for the Board of Education and founded a school for creative writing.
His interest and attention were later directed to immigration, as a director of publicity of the Commission of Immigrants in America, and as managing editor of The Immigrants in America Review. He published a book on how immigrants needed to be "americanized" into a single uniform culture.
In 1921 he founded the First Church for Animal Rights in Manhattan and it had a membership of about 300 people.
Dixon"s letters and works are archived at the University of Houston Library. His published works include:
The Human Side of Plants (1914)
Signs is Signs (1915)
Americanization (1916)
Forest Friends (1916)
The Human Side of Trees: wonders of the world (1917)
The Human Side of Birds (1917)
The Human Side of Animals (1918)
Hidden Children (1922)
(With Franklyn East Fitch) Personality of Plants (1923)
(With Brayton Eddy) Personality of Insects (1924)
The Ape of Heaven (1936)
Half dark moon (1939).
Member Poetry Society American, American Renaissance Society, University Forum American, Little Rock (Arkansas). Member Daytona Beach (Florida) Garden.
