Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — The Writers. [ARTICLE]

The Writers.

Harold MaeGrath, the author. Is at Malta on his leisurely way around the world. William Lightfoot Visscher, author and actor, w r a3 born in Owingsville, Ky., sixty-seven years ago. He carried a gun four years in the civil war, has written over a thousand poems and has done editorial work on scores of newspapers. William Watson, the English poet who has attracted to himself the attention of the world by his poem, “The Woman With the Serpent’s Tongue,” has been a prolific writer since 1880. Some years ago he went into retirement as a result, it was commonly said, of a mental collapse. Although it is the Swedish academy which awards the Nobel prizes, Selma Lagerlof is the first Swede to receive the award for literature. Mme. Lagerlof is characterized by one writer as “the creator of a new school of literature in Sweden—the optimistic.” Her personality has been described as “radiating sunshine.”