fiction.wikisort.org - WriterArthur Henry Adams (6 June 1872 – 4 March 1936) was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.
New Zealand–Australian poet and journalist
Not to be confused with Arthur Henry Adams, president of U.S. Rubber Co.
Arthur Henry Adams |
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 Arthur Henry Adams |
Born | (1872-06-06)6 June 1872 Lawrence, New Zealand |
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Died | 4 March 1936(1936-03-04) (aged 63) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Pen name | James James |
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Occupation | Journalist; Author; Poet |
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Alma mater | University of Otago |
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Spouse | Lily Paton |
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Biography
Arthur Adams was born in Lawrence, New Zealand, and educated at the University of Otago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and began studying law. He then abandoned law to become a journalist in Wellington, where he began contributing poetry to The Bulletin, a Sydney periodical. He moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as private secretary and literary advisor to J.C. Williamson, a noted theatrical manager.[1][2]
In 1900 Adams travelled to China to cover the Boxer Rebellion as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and several New Zealand papers. He would later return to New Zealand before moving to London in 1902, where he published several works including The Nazarene (1902) and London Streets, a collection of poems (1906).[2] Adams returned to Australia in 1906, he took over from A. G. Stephens as editor of the Bulletin's Red Page until 1909.
In addition to his poetry, Adams wrote both plays and novels. His most successful play was Mrs. Pretty and the Premier, which was produced in 1914 by the Melbourne Repertory Theatre.
Adams died on 4 March 1936 in Sydney. He had married Lily Paton in 1908. She and two daughters and a son survived him.[3]
Works
Verse
- Maoriland: and Other Verses (1899)
- Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams (1913)
- Australian Nursery Rimes (1917)
- Fifty Nursery Rhymes with Music (1924)
Prose
- The Nazarene: A Study of a Man (1902)
- Tussock Land (1904)
- London Streets (1906)
- A Touch of Fantasy (1911)
- The Knight and the Motor Launch (1913)
- Three Plays for the Australian Stage (1914)
- Double Bed Dialogues (1915)
- Grocer Greatheart (1915)
- Honeymoon Dialogues (1916), published as James James (pseudonym)
- The Australians (1920)
- Lola of the Chocolates (1929)
- A Man's Life (1929)
Plays
- Premier and Mrs Pretty (1914)
- Galahad Jones (1910)
- Gallipoli Bill (1914)
- Doctor Death (1920)
- The Tame Cat (1910)
Music
- Evening Bells Waltz (1912)
- Fill The Billy For The Boys with Neville Hampson
- Love is Gold (Lyrics) with music by Leon Caron[4]
References
- Wilde, William, ed. (1996). Australian Poets and Their Works. Oxford University Press.
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Adams, Arthur H." . Encyclopedia Americana.
- Miller, E. Morris; Macartney, Frederick T. (1956). Australian Literature. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. p. 29.
- Caron, Leon.; Adams, Arthur H. (n.d.), Love is gold reverie et valse chantante, W.H. Glen & Co, retrieved 26 July 2018
Bibliography
- "'Adams, Arthur Henry (1872–1936)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. 1979. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 16 January 2008 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Adams, Arthur Henry". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
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Arthur Henry Adams (6 de diciembre de 1872 - 4 de marzo de 1936) fue un periodista, poeta y escritor
Adams nació en Lawrence, Nueva Zelanda, y estudió en la Universidad de Otago, donde se obtuvo el grado de bachicher en artes y comenzó a estudiar derecho, abandonando las leyes decidió trabajar como periodista en Wellington, donde empezó a contribuir con la poesía en una publicación llamada The Bulletin El Boletín . Se trasladó a Sídney en 1898, y ocupó una posición como secretario de obras literarias de James Williamson Cassius.[1]
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