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Will Levington Comfort was born on January 17, 1878 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. He was the son of Silas Hopkins and Jane (Levington) Comfort.
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Andrew Bedient, at the age of seventeen, in a single afternoon,—indeed, in one moment of a single afternoon,—performed an action which brought him financial abundance for his mature years. Although this narrative less concerns the boy Bedient than the man as he approaches twice seventeen, the action is worthy of account, beyond the riches that it brought, because it seems to draw him into somewhat clearer vision from the shadows of a very strange boyhood.
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... To-day the first glimpse of this manuscript as a whole. It was all detached pieces before, done over a period of many months, with many intervening tasks, the main idea slightly drifting from time to time.... The purpose on setting out, was to relate the adventure of home-making in the country, with its incidents of masonry, child and rose culture, and shore-conservation. It was not to tell others how to build a house or plant a garden, or how to conduct one's life on a shore-acre or two. Not at this late day. I was impelled rather to relate how we found plenty with a little; how we entered upon a new dimension of health and length of days; and from the safe distance of the desk, I wanted to laugh over a city man's adventures with drains and east winds, country people and the meshes of possession. In a way, our second coming to the country was like the landing of the Swiss Family Robinson upon that little world of theirs in the midst Pg viiiof the sea. Town life had become a subtle persecution. We hadn't been wrecked exactly, but there had been times in which we were torn and weary, understanding only vaguely that it was the manner of our days in the midst of the crowd that was dulling the edge of health and taking the bloom from life. I had long been troubled about the little children in school—the winter sicknesses, the amount of vitality required to resist contagions, mental and physical—the whole tendency of the school toward making an efficient and a uniform product, rather than to develop the intrinsic and inimitable gift of each child.
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Will Levington Comfort was born on January 17, 1878 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. He was the son of Silas Hopkins and Jane (Levington) Comfort.
While he was very young the family moved to Detroit, where he attended the elementary and secondary schools and nourished the ambition to become a writer. As a high-school student he supported himself by delivering papers and later secured a job as cub reporter on a Detroit daily.
For some months he had a similar appointment in Cincinnati. During the war with Spain he enlisted in the 5th United States Cavalry hoping for service in the Philippines but was sent instead to a camp at Tampa, Florida where he was ill of fever, and thence to Cuba, where he was honorably discharged. After working for a time as reporter and free-lance writer in Detroit, he accepted an offer to go to the Philippines as war correspondent for the Detroit Journal Syndicate. For part of the session of 1900-01 Comfort attended the preparatory department of Albion College but did not complete the course. He returned to journalism, for some months editing a daily column for a Pittsburgh paper, and drawing upon his experience for short stories. When the Russo-Japanese War broke in 1904 he was sent to the Orient to cover the conflict for the Pittsburgh Dispatch and other papers. His first successful novel, a somewhat loosely constructed story of adventure and diplomatic intrigue, entitled Routledge Rides Alone, was published in 1910. It was so unflattering a picture of the glories of war that peace societies are said to have used it as propaganda. Though uneven in technique, the book was well received and the author was encouraged to write other novels, sometimes drawing on material already used for short stories. There followed in 1911 She Buildeth Her House, based on the disastrous eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902, and Fate Knocks at the Door (1912). In Down among Men (1913) Comfort wrote what some reviewers called a pacifist book, describing vividly a Russian ploughman who on principle refused to be a soldier. His next work, Midstream, A Chronicle at Halfway, published in 1914, was a psychological autobiography. In Red Fleece (1915) he dealt with the World War, portraying the conversion to peace doctrines of an American war correspondent on the Russian front. Other novels followed, including juveniles, and in 1918 he published The Hive, a collection of essays and stories. His Son of Power (1920), written in collaboration with Willimina L. Armstrong, was made up of the varied adventures of an animal trainer. In The Yellow Lord (1919) and This Man's World (1921), Comfort turned to the Pacific Ocean for his setting; in The Public Square (1923) he dealt with a young woman's attempt to become a successful writer. He drew upon the color and romance of the old Southwest for Somewhere South in Sonora (1925); and Apache (1931) is the story of an Indian chief who strives in vain to protect his people from the encroachment of the white race. Comfort's last novel, The Pilot Comes Aboard (1932), is the story of a boy's passion for the sea and his life of forty years afloat. From about 1918 on Comfort lived in Southern California, giving his whole time to literary work. He died suddenly in Los Angeles. Though not a member of any particular sect, he was strongly influenced by occultism, and reviewers often complained that the objectivity of his fiction was blurred by his tendency to mysticism and his insistence upon his social doctrines. He published a series of Reconstruction Letters, 1918-27, and The Glass Hive, 1927-32, addressed to his associates in the occult. Influenced somewhat in his writing by Kipling and Conrad, he fell short of both in technique and in singleness of purpose, though his work was often distinguished by range and vividness of imagination.
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He was married on September 30, 1900, to Mrs. Adith Duffie-Mulholland of Detroit. They had three children, Jane Levington, John Duffie, and Thomas Tyrone.