Background
Dyer, Walter Alden was born on October 10, 1878 in Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ebenezer Porter and Martha Augusta (Fearing) Dyer.
Dyer, Walter Alden was born on October 10, 1878 in Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ebenezer Porter and Martha Augusta (Fearing) Dyer.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1900.
He joined the staff of the Springfield Union in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1901, edited many publications, and became managing editor of Country Life in America (1906–1914). He was one of the most famous writers of dog stories. He was a prolific writer who contributed many articles to magazines, and published various works, including:
The Lure of the Antique (1910)
The Richer Life (1911)
Pierrot, Dog of Belgium (1915)
Creators of Decorative Styles (1917)
Handbook of Furniture Styles (1918)
Sons of Liberty (1920)
Gulliver the Great(1916)
The River Life (1911)
Dogs of Boytown (1918)
Many Dogs There Be (1924)
The Breakwater (1927)
Sprigs of Hemlock (1931)
He graduated from Amherst College Class of 1900.
The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds some of his papers.
Member Amherst History Society (president 1924-1926), Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Ethelind Thorp Childs (died March 1904). Married second, Muriel Worthington Childs, June 1, 1907.