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Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. [1] He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant .
Jul 17, 2024 · Owen Wister (born July 14, 1860, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 21, 1938, North Kingstown, Rhode Island) was an American novelist whose novel The Virginian (1902) helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature.
The Virginian (otherwise titled The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains) is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister (1860–1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels ...
Nov 8, 2014 · Owen Wister in Yellowstone Park, 1890s. American Heritage Center. Owen Wister, the writer credited with creating the classic Western hero and the popular western novel, was born July 14, 1860, into an upper-crust family in Philadelphia.
Owen Wister was an American writer and historian, best known for his novel 'The Virginian,' which is considered the first true Western novel. He was a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt and a member of the literary elite of his time.
The book became one of the first mass-market bestsellers and stands as the defining text for America's most durable hero the cowboy. Its author, Owen Wister, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. '88, was the unlikeliest of creators for his celebrated book. A cowboy he wasn't.
Born into a patrician Philadelphia family, a descendant of Pierce Butler, a signator of the Constitution, and the grandson of the Shakespearean actor Fanny Kemble, Owen Wister (1860–1938) was educated in Europe and at the exclusive St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire.
