EDGAR
WATSON HOWE
3 May 1853 - 3 Oct 1937
American
author and editor, proprietor of the Atchison, Kansas
Daily Globe from 1877 to 1911. Howe authored and self-published
his first and most successful novel, The Story of a Country
Town, in 1883. It took an unusually cynical and realistic
view of midwestern life, and earned the respect and praise
of contemporary writers like Mark Twain.
Howe established his own publication, E.W. Howe's Monthly,
in 1911. It ran to his death in 1937, and contained many of
the bitter aphorisms for which he was well known.
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