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Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels Ruggles of Red Gap and Merton of the Movies. Another of his works, Bunker Bean , helped popularize the term " flapper ".
Harry Leon Wilson has 127 books on Goodreads with 993 ratings. Harry Leon Wilson’s most popular book is Ruggles of Red Gap.
American writer Harry Leon Wilson won wide popularity with his humorous novels and plays. Among the best known of his novels are Bunker Bean (1912), Ruggles of Red Gap (1915), and Merton of the Movies (1922). Wilson was born on May 1, 1867, in Oregon, Illinois.
Jul 22, 2024 · American literature. Distinguished Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities. Author of Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties, Leopards... Professor of English, University of Chicago, 1944–68.
Harry Leon Wilson. (1867—1939) Quick Reference. (1867–1939), was an editor of the humorous weekly Puck (1896–1902), after which he began writing fiction. His novels include The Spenders (1902), contrasting a pioneer of the Far West and ... From: Wilson, Harry Leon in The Oxford Companion to American Literature » Subjects: Literature.
Mar 5, 2020 · Harry Leon Wilson was never so valued; even his early novels, melodramas set in the Mormon West or New York, were only faintly praised, and when he turned definitively to comedy with 1912’s Bunker Bean, he had found his real métier.
Harry Leon Wilson was born on May 1, 1867 in Oregon, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Bunker Bean (1936), Cameo Kirby (1914) and Make Me a Star (1932). He was married to Helen MacGowan Cook, Rose Cecil Latham (aka Rose O'Neill) and Wilbertine Nesselrode Teters.
