Owen Wister





Owen Wister

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born
July 14, 1860 in Germantown, outside Philadelphia, , The United States

died
July 21, 1938

gender
male

website

genre

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Westerns


About this author

Owen Wister was born on July 14, 1860, in Germantown, a neighborhood within the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician, one of a long line of Wisters raised at the storied Belfield estate in Germantown. His mother, Sarah Butler Wister, was the daughter of actress Fanny Kemble.
Education
He briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Alpha chapter). Wister graduated from Harvard in 1882.
At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years study...more


Average rating: 3.81 · 1,778 ratings · 301 reviews · 45 distinct works
The Virginian: A Horseman o...
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Lady Baltimore
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Lin McLean
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When West Was West
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More books by Owen Wister…
“It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.”
Owen Wister

“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”
Owen Wister, The Virginian

“When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.”
Owen Wister, The Virginian a Horseman of the Plains

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