Irving Bacheller

Bacheller, Irving (Addison)

Bacheller, Irving [Addison] (1859–1950), author of popular romances, which include Eben Holden (1900), a novel concerned with a homely hired man; D'ri and I (1901), a novel of the War of 1812; Silas Strong (1906); A Man for the Ages (1919), a story of Lincoln; A Candle in the Wilderness (1930), laid in early New England; and The Winds of God (1941), a boy's experiences in Vermont and upper New York. Opinions of a Cheerful Yankee (1926), Coming Up the Road (1928), and From Stores of Memory (1938) are memoirs.

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Irving Bacheller

Irving Bacheller , 1859-1950, American novelist, b. Pierpont, N.Y., grad. St. Lawrence Univ., 1882. In 1884 he founded the first newspaper syndicate in the United States. His novels, chiefly concerned with early American life, include Eben Holden (1900), D'ri and I (1901), and A Man for the Ages (1919).

Bibliography: See his autobiographical works.

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