| 词条 | Edgar Fawcett |
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| name = Edgar Fawcett | image = EdgarFawcett.jpg | alt = Edgar Fawcett | caption = Edgar Fawcett | other_names = | occupation = American writer | birth_date = {{start-date|May 26, 1847|mf=yes}} | death_date = {{Death-date and age|May 2, 1904|May 26, 1847|mf=yes}} | birth_place = New York City | death_place = London }} Edgar Fawcett (May 26, 1847 – May 2, 1904) was an American novelist and poet. BiographyEarly life and educationFawcett was born in New York City on May 26, 1847 and spent much of his life there. Educated at Columbia College, he obtained the A.B. there in 1867 and his M.A. three years later. At Columbia, he was a member of the Fraternity of Delta Phi[1] and the Philolexian Society.[2] CareerAlthough successful in his time, his works are mostly forgotten today.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} His best known novels, such as Purple and Fine Linen (1873){{citation needed|date=January 2015}} and New York (1898),{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} were satirical studies of New York high society. Fawcett also wrote a parody of the King Arthur legends entitled The New King Arthur: An Opera Without Music (1885),{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} as well as numerous works for children, such as Short Poems for Short People (1872).{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} In 1877, his poem "Box" appeared in the Sacramento Daily Union having been reprinted from The Atlantic, where it would appear in the September issue.[3] His volumes of verse included Song and Story (1884){{citation needed|date=January 2015}} and Songs of Doubt and Dream (1891). His verse was frequently anthologized.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Fawcett's rather remarkable novels Solarion (about a dog given human intelligence){{citation needed|date=January 2015}} and Douglas Duane (1885) (on scientific body-switching), as well as The Ghost of Guy Thryle (1895) (which has astral projection as a means of interplanetary travel) deserve to be better known.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} "The Man from Mars" was published in the June 1892 issue of Short Stories: A Magazine of Select Fiction.[4] Stanley R. Harrison's study, entitled Edgar Fawcett, was published in 1972.[5] It lists many unpublished manuscripts sent in for copyright with such titles as "The Man from Mars" and "The Destruction of the Moon," but no trace of most of these beyond the listing seems to exist.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Later life, and deathFawcett spent many of the last years of his life in London, where he died on May 2, 1904.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite book|title=The Undergraduate Record|author=William Simpson Sloan|year=1881|publisher=Gillis brothers|isbn=|url=https://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC38011776&id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA29&lpg=RA1-PA29}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=The Undergraduate Record: Columbia College. A Book of Statistical Information|author=Sloan, W.S.|date=1881|publisher=Gillis Bros.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxATAAAAIAAJ|pages=1–29|accessdate=2015-06-12}} 3. ^{{cite news|work=Sacramento Daily Union|title= Box|author=Fawcellt, Edgar|page= 6|volume= 3|number= 154|date= August 25, 1877}} 4. ^{{cite news|author=Fawcett, Edgar|title=The Man from Mars|date=June 1892|work=Short Stories: A Magazine of Selection Fiction}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Harrison, Stanley R.|title=Edgar Fawcett|publisher= Gale Group|date= 1972}} Further reading
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