People You Know - Softcover

Ade, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540809897 ISBN 13: 9781540809896

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

People You Know

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About the Author

Born in Kentland, Ind., The United States February 09, 1866 Died on May 16, 1944 George Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, one of seven children raised by John and Adaline (Bush) Ade. While attending Purdue University, he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He also met and started a lifelong friendship with fellow cartoonist and Sigma Chi brother John T. McCutcheon and worked as a reporter for the Lafayette Call. He graduated in 1887. Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievements as a great humorist of American character during an important era in American history: the first large wave of migration from the countryside to burgeoning cities like Chicago, where, in fact, Ade produced his best fiction. He was a practicing realist during the Age of (William Dean) Howells and a local colorist of Chicago and the Midwest. His work constitutes a vast comedy of Midwestern manners and, indeed, a comedy of late 19th-century American manners.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1540809897
• ISBN 13: 9781540809896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90