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Opie Read from Who-When-What Book, 1900. Opie Percival Read (born December 22, 1852, Nashville Tennessee; d. November 2, 1939, Chicago Illinois) was an American journalist and humorist. His bibliography lists 60 published books.
Opie Read was an American journalist, humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Read specialized in the homespun humour of life in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas; Southern colonels, blacks, and drunken printers are frequently found in his writing.
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Jun 10, 2011 · Opie Read in the Ozarks, including many of the rich, rare, quaint, eccentric, ignorant and superstitious sayings of the natives of Missouri and Arkansaw. by. Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939. Publication date.
Opie Read (1852-1939): An Introduction Reed M. Baird Michigan State University When Opie Read died in 1939 at the age of eighty-seven, he had long since outlived his popularity as a southern regional novelist during the 1890's and after the turn of the century. In his last years, Read was known primarily as a humorist, who had entertained his ...
Jul 28, 2023 · Opie Read was a newspaperman, author, and lecturer. He cofounded the comic newspaper the Arkansaw Traveler and wrote several successful novels. Arkansas provided much of his education as he worked for three Little Rock (Pulaski County) newspapers: the Arkansas Gazette, the Arkansas Evening Democrat, and the Evening Ledger.
OPIE READ, ARKANSAS JOURNALIST By Robert L. Morris Assistant Professor of English, University of Arkansas Between 1888 and 1893 Op*e Read enlarged his reputation as humorist, wit, backwoods philosopher, and romancer. As "the best known of Arkansas humorists/'1 Read was properly called another "Arkansaw Traveler/'2
Opie Percival Read was an American journalist and humorist. Before 1887 he has been an editor of 5 Southern newspapers. As a novelist, Read is credited with bringing the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute" although the phrase seems to have been in verbal use before this and is often credited to P.T. Barnum.
