Owen Johnson - Stockbridge, MA
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The grave of novelist and playwright Owen Johnson is located in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA.
Waymark Code: WMXGQP
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2018
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The grave of novelist Owen Johnson marked by a stone plaque embedded in a brick wall which also contains markers for his mother Katharine and his father Robert Underwood Johnson. Owen Johnson's plaque, on the left side of the wall, is inscribed:
OWEN
JOHNSON
Born August 27, 1879
Died January 27, 1952
Description:
Owen Johnson was born in New York City. He was the son of poet and statesman Robert Underwood Johnson and Katharine McMahon Johnson. He attended Lawrenceville prep school in NJ and graduated from Yale University in CT in 1900. During World War I he was a war correspondent for both the New York Times and Collier's magazine.
Soon after graduating from Yale he began publishing novels . He then created the character Dink Stover in a series of books known as the "Lawrenceville Stories" that was the basis for the film, The Happy Years (1950), and PBS mini-series televised in 1987.
Wikipeia link lists the following novels by Owen Johnson:
The Arrows of the Almighty (1901)
In the Name of Liberty (1905)
Max Fargus (1906)
The Eternal Boy (1909; a 'Lawrenceville' story)
The Prodigious Hickey (1910; a reissue of The Eternal Boy)
The Humming Bird (1910; also one of the 'Lawrenceville' stories)
The Varmint (1910; introducing Dink Stover at Lawrenceville)
The Tennessee Shad (1911; a 'Lawrenceville' story)
Stover at Yale (1912)
Murder in Any Degree (1913; stories)
The Sixty-first Second (1913; a novel concerning the Panic of 1907)
The Salamander (1913)
Making Money (1915)
The Woman Gives (1915)
The Spirit of France (1916; nonfiction)
Virtuous Wives (1918)
The Wasted Generation (1921)
Skippy Bedelle (1922; also one of the 'Lawrenceville' stories)
Blue Blood (1923)
Children of Divorce (1927)
Sacrifice (1929)
The Coming of the Amazons (1931)
Filmography from IMDB: Link
American Playhouse (TV Series - 1987; The Prodigious Hickey)
Omnibus (1957 - TV Series - Stover at Yale)
The Happy Years (1957 - "The Lawrenceville School Stories")
Children of Divorce (1927)
The Enemy Sex (1924)
The Woman Gives (1920)
Virtuous Wives (1918)
The Varmint (1917)
The Salamander (1916)
Date of birth: 08/27/1879
Date of death: 01/27/1952
Area of notoriety: Literature
Marker Type: Plaque
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: daylight hours
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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