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Bret Harte (/ h ɑːr t / HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book ...
May 1, 2024 · Bret Harte (born August 25, 1836, Albany, New York, U.S.—died May 5, 1902, London, England) was an American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction. Harte’s family settled in New York City and Brooklyn in 1845.
Pen Name: Bret Harte. Born: August 25, 1836. Died: May 6, 1902. Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American author and poet, who worked in a number of different professional capacities including miner, teacher, messenger and journalist before turning to full time writing in 1871.
At the height of his career, in the 1860s and 1870s, Bret Harte was one of the most famous and most highly paid American writers. His popular accounts of life in Gold Rush-era California, including short stories such as “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” seized the public imagination and made him an ...
Mar 28, 2018 · Bret Harte (b. 1837–d. 1902), long regarded as a pioneering western American local colorist, is best-known today for half a dozen short stories, including “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (August 1868), “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (January 1869), and “Tennessee’s Partner” (October 1869), as well as the poem “Plain Language from ...
Jun 8, 2018 · Bret Harte, the first American writer from the West Coast to gain an international reputation, was instrumental in introducing frontier literature to eastern audiences. His stories established many of the basic characteristics of the western genre: rough, sarcastic humor, rustic dialect, and character types such as good-natured gamblers, greedy ...
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902), was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials ...
