Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott

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From: Canadian Encyclopedia
Date: 20020101
Author:D. FETHERLING

D. FETHERLING
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott

Author: D. FETHERLING

Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott , popular novelist and expatriate bohemian (b at Chatham, Ont 26 Feb 1874; d at Mountain Lakes, NJ 14 Sept 1950). Despite his trilogy of novels about the Canadian Prairies Prairie Wife (1915), Prairie Mother (1920) and Prairie Child (1922) Stringer was not in any recognizable stream of Canadian writing but rather was a prolific American hack-fiction writer of the David Graham Phillips strain, able to satisfy, by his facile and ...

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