EDGAR W. HOWEfrom History of Kansas Newspapers (1916)
William Allen White: E. W. Howe is the most remarkable man Kansas or the Middle West has produced. Moreover, he has written the greatest novel ever written in or about Kansas or the Middle West. His "Story of a Country Town" is one of the ten best novels written in America. American Magazine, August, 1915: E. W. Howe, famous for his wisdom and ability to write, is one of America's real possessions. Dr. Frank Crane, in New York Globe: E. W. Howe is a national-institution. On earth, in the heavens above, or in the waters beneath the earth, there is nothing like his Monthly; it is a broad stream of horse sense; he is giving to the world the most perfect example of self-expression with which I am familiar. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: There is merit enough in E. W. Howe's Monthly to give it a national reading. Labouchere's Truth was never better. W. D. Howells: E. W. Howe's "Story of a Country Town" is a very remarkable piece of realism, and constitutes a part of the only literary movement of our time that seems to have vitality in it. Edward Bok: E. W. Howe's "Daily Notes of a Trip Around the World" is a lesson in travel writing that is worth while. I can not imagine a person who should not read this book. S. S. McClure: I have read E. W. Howe's travel letters with tremendous interest. I do not know that I have ever read any book of travel equally well done. New York Sun: E, W. Howe's travel book has the humor of Mark Twain. CLICK TO GO BACK TO KANSAS NEWSPAPER EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS INDEX |
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"Who 's Who in America": Edgar Watson Howe; born, Treaty,
Ind., May 3, 1852; common-school education; been in printing office
since ten years old; publisher 
