Author:Owen Wister

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Owen Wister
(1860–1938)
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American writer and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for his Western novel The Virginian, considered one of the earliest classics of the West.

Owen Wister

Works

  • The Dragon of Wantley, His Tale (1892) (illustrated by John Stewardson) (transcription project)
  • Red Men and White (1896)
  • Lin McLean (1898)
  • The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories (1900)
  • Ulysses S. Grant (1900)
  • The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902)
  • Philosophy 4: a Story of Harvard University (1903)
  • A Journey in Search of Christmas (1904)
  • Lady Baltimore (1906)
  • Mother (1907)
  • Members of the Family (1911)
  • Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation (1911)
  • "Theodore Roosevelt" in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.
  • The Pentecost of Calamity (1915)
  • The Seven Ages of Washington; a biography (1917)
  • A Straight Deal; or, The Ancient Grudge (1920)
  • Neighbors Henceforth (1922)
  • The New Swiss Family Robinson. A Tale for Children of All Ages (1922)

Works from periodicals

Non fiction
  • "Where Charity Begins" (1895 Harper's)
  • "Concerning 'Bad Men': The True "Bad Man" of the Frontier and the Reasons for His Existence" (1901 Apr Everybody's)
  • "A Bunch of Buckskins" (1906 Metropolitan)

Works about Wister

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1938, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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