Samuel Merwin

Samuel Merwin, Sr. (October 6, 1874 – October 17, 1936) was an American writer, including novelist and playwright.

Biography

Merwin was born on October 6, 1874, in Evanston, Illinois, to Ella B. and Orlando H. Merwin. His father was the postmaster of Evanston.

In 1901, Merwin married Edna Earl Fleshiem. The couple had two sons, Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. and Banister Merwin, and one adopted son, John Merwin.

After attending Northwestern University, he worked between 1905 and 1911 as associate editor and then editor of Success magazine. In 1907, the magazine sent him to China to investigate the China's opium trade.

Death

He died of a stroke while dining at The Player's Club in Manhattan on October 17, 1936.

Publications

The Short Line War (1899) with Henry Kitchell Webster

Calumet "K" (1901) with Henry Kitchell Webster

The Road to Frontenac: A Romance of Early Canada (1901)

The Whip Hand (1903)

His Little World: The Story of Hunch Badeau (1903)

The Merry Anne (1904)

The Road Builders (1905)

Comrade John (1907) with Henry Kitchell Webster

Drugging a Nation. (1908)

The Citadel: A Romance of Unrest (1912)

Anthony the Absolute (1914)

The Charmed Life of Miss Austin (1914)

The Honey Bee: A Story of a Woman in Revolt (1915)

The Trufflers (1916)

Temperamental Henry: An Episodic History of the Early Life and the Young Loves of Henry Calverly, 3rd (1917)

Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd (1918)

The Passionate Pilgrim: Being the Narrative of an Oddly Dramatic Year in the Life of Henry Calverly, 3rd (1919)