Thomas Nelson Page
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Thomas Nelson Page (b. Hanover County, Virginia, April 23 1853-d. Hanover County, Virginia, 1 November 1922) was an American writer.
Page popularized the plantation tradition genre of Southern writing. His 1887 collection of short stories, In Ole Virginia, is the quintessential work of that genre. Another short-story collection of his is entitled, The Burial of the Guns (1894).
A scion of the prominent Nelson and Page families, he attended Washington College and the University of Virginia in pursuit of a legal career and was a lawyer in Richmond between 1876 and 1893, when he moved to Washington. Here he kept up his writing, which amounted to eighteen volumes when they were compiled and published in 1912. Under Woodrow Wilson, Page served as U.S. ambassador to Italy for six years between 1913 and 1919. His book entitled Italy and the World War (1920) is a memoir of his service there.
Titles
- Marse Chan (1884
- Meh Lady
- In Ole Virginia (1887)
- Two Little Confederates (1888)
- Befo' de War (1888)
- On Newfound River (1891)
- Elsket and Other Stories (1891)
- The Old South (1892)
- Pastime Stories (1894)
- The Burial of the Guns (1894)
- The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (1897)
- Two Prisoners (1898)
- Red Rock (1898)
- Gordon Keith (1903)
- Bred in the Bone (1904)
- The Negro:The Southerner's Problem (1904)
- The Old Dominion: Her Making and her Manners (1908)
- Robert E. Lee, the Southerner (1908)
- John Marvel, Assistant (1909)
- Robert E. Lee, Man and Soldier (1911)
- The Land of the Spirit (1913)
- The Stranger's Pew (1914)