About Arlo Bates
Lived 1850 – 1918 (aged 67). Arlo Bates was an American novelist, editor, writer, scholar of English and journalist.
List of works Novels: The Pagans (1884) The Wheel of Fire (1885) The Philistines (1888) Albrecht (1890) The Puritans (1899) Love in a Cloud (1900)
Collected Poems: Berries of the Brier (1886) Sonnets in Shadow, (1887) a Poet and his Self (1891) Told in the Gate (1892) The Torchbearers (1894) Under the Beech Tree (1899)
Collected Criticisms: Talks on Writing English (1897) Talks on the Study of Literature (1898) The Diary of a Saint (1902) Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)
Collected Stories: The Intoxicated Ghost (1908)
In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.
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Who was Arlo Bates?
American writer (1850-1918)
When was Arlo Bates born?
Arlo Bates was born on 16 December 1850 in East Machias.
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Arlo Bates died on 25 August 1918 in Boston.
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Arlo Bates was a novelist, editor, writer, scholar of English and journalist.
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Arlo Bates was American.
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