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A Short Biography of Brander Matthews

Author Name:

Brander Matthews

Born As:

James Brander Matthews

Other Names:

Born:

21 Feb 1852

Died:

31 Mar 1929




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Selected Works:

The Theatres of Paris - 1880
French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century - 1881; revised in 1891 and 1901
Margery's Lovers - 1884
Actors and Actresses of the United States and Great Britain - five volumes, 1886, with Laurence Hutton
In the Vestibule Limited - 1892
Americanisms and Briticisms - 1892
The Decision of the Court - 1893
Vignettes of Manhattan - 1894
Studies of the Stage - 1894
His Father's Son - 1895, a novel
Aspects of Fiction - 1896; revised in 1902
An Introduction to the Study of American Literature - 1896
Studies in Local Color - 1898
A Confident To-Morrow - 1900
The Action and the Word - 1900
The Historical Novel and Other Essays - 1901
Parts of Speech, Essays on English - 1901
The Philosophy of the Short-Story - 1901
The Development of the Drama - 1903
The Short Story - 1907
Americans of the Future and Other Essays - 1909
Molière: His Life and Works - 1910
Introduction to the Study of American literature - 1911
Shakespeare as a Playwright - 1913
On Acting - 1914
The Oxford Book of American Essays - 1914
These Many Years - 1917, his autobiography
Principles of Playmaking - 1919
Playwrights on Playmaking - 1923.                          
                          
One of the founders of the Authors' Club and of the Players' Club, New York

One of the organizers of the American Copyright League
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters President - 1913, of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
First chairman - 1906, of the Simplified Spelling Board; President of the Modern Language Association of America - 1910. 
French government decorated him with the Legion of Honor. - 1907.