Owen Johnson
(1878–1952)

American writer, best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover in The "Lawrenceville Stories," inviting comparison with Kipling's Stalky & Co. Many of his books were filmed.

Owen Johnson

Works

(partial list)

  • Arrows of the Almighty (1901)
  • In the Name of Liberty: A story of the terror (1905) PG
  • Max Fargus (1906) PG
  • The Sixty-first Second (1913) IA : PG
  • The Salamander (1913) PG
  • Murder in Any Degree (1913) short stories PG; hathitrust
    • Murder in Any Degree (also in The Century Magazine, Aug 1912)
    • One Hundred in the Dark
    • A Comedy for Wives
    • The Lie
    • Even Threes (also in The Century Magazine, Jul 1912)
    • A Man of No Imagination
    • Larry Moore
    • My Wife’s Wedding Presents
    • The Surprises of the Lottery
  • Making Money (1915)
  • The Woman Gives: A story of regeneration (1915) PG
  • The Spirit of France (1916) nonfiction
  • Virtuous Wives (1918) IA
  • The Wasted Generation (1921) IA : PG
  • Blue Blood (1923)

The Lawrenceville stories

  • The Eternal Boy (1909); IA : PG
    • reissued as The Prodigious Hickey (1910) IA
  • The Humming Bird (1910) IA
  • The Varmint (1910) IA : PG
  • The Tennessee Shad: chronicling the rise and fall of the firm of Doc Macnooder and the Tennessee Shad (1911) IA
  • Stover at Yale (1912) (also serialized in McClure's Magazine, Oct 1911 onward) IA
  • Skippy Bedelle (1922) PG

Individual short works

  • "The Building of Arts at Bar Harbor," (nf) in The Century Magazine, Sep 1908
  • "The Future President," in The Century Magazine, Jun 1908
  • "Joffe: The Leader of a Republican Army," (nf) in The Century Magazine, Oct 16, 1915
  • "The Run that Turned the Game," in The Century Magazine, Sep 1908
  • "The Truth About France," (n-f) in Collier's, Oct 30, 1915 (also included in The Spirit of France, 1916)

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 1952, 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 60 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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