Jesse Lynch Williams
(1871–1929)

American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and dramatist; also a contributor to various magazines such as Scribner's. Best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize winning play Why Marry? (1908).

Jesse Lynch Williams

Works

Novels and short story collections

  • The Day-Dreamer: Being the Full Narrative of "The Stolen Story" (1906)
  • Princeton Stories (1895) short stories IA : PG
  • The Adventures of a Freshman (1899) IA : PG
  • New York Sketches (1902) IA : PG
  • Remating Time (1916) (dramatized as Why Not (1922)) hathitrust
  • My Lost Duchess, an Idyl of the Town IA
  • Mr. Cleveland: a Personal Impression (1909) IA

Plays

  • The Stolen Story (1906)
  • "And So They Were Married," a comedy of the new woman (1914 IA)
  • Why Marry? (1918) [Pulitzer Prize] (transcription project)
  • Why Not (1922) (dramatization of Remating Time, 1916)
  • Lovely Lady (??)

Individual short works

Short works from magazines

  • "Back to the Town; or, The Return to Human Nature" (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1915
  • "The Color Scheme at the New Panama-Pacific Exposition" (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Sep 1914
  • "The Girl from the Machine" (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Oct 1906
  • ' "Good Hunting" ' (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1916
  • "Barrie: A Triumph of Personality," (essay) Appleton's Magazine, 1906
  • "Remating Time" (novella) Scribner's Magazine, Jan-Mar 1916
  • "The Walk Up-town in New York" (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Jan 1900

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1929, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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