Samuel A. Derieux

Samuel Arthur Derieux (1881–1922) was an American writer, known especially for short stories, set in the South, about dogs, hunting, or both.

He was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1881. His undergraduate education was in the South, at Wofford College from 1897 to 1899, and at Richmond College (now the University of Richmond), where he received his B.A. in 1904. He spent two years of graduate work at Johns Hopkins, and received his M.A. at University of Chicago in 1910.

He worked as an assistant professor of English at Richmond (1910-'11), Missouri State Normal School ('11-'13), and Wake Forest ('15-'17). where he then published one in each of the next two years, and two to six a year thereafter. He was among the winners of an O. Henry memorial award in the awards' first year, and was the first author to accumulate three of the awards ('19, '21, and—posthumously -- '22). He died in Manhattan of appendicitis at the age of 41 on February 25, 1922. While they agree in starting the action on Friday, the film's summary is more detailed in specifying Monday as the day of the trial; the story simply says "Then one afternoon..." (not "the next day"), following a Saturday of hunting by an unknown interval, and places the trial on the day following the consequently unspecified afternoon.

Writings

(Stories marked * appear in the collection Frank of Freedom Hill .) "The Little Boy in the Blackberry Patch"* "Blood Money"* "The Call of Home"* Her Sammy (1916) The Magnet (1916) (collection of stories previously published 1917-21) "Bird Dogs I Have Known" (AM, May 1923) Animal Personalities (1923) "Sheriff" (AM, October 1928)