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A famous American short-story writer and poet; born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839; died at Camberley, England, May 5, 1902. He published "Outcroppings" (1866), a collection of verse by Californians; "The Lost Galleon, and Other Tales" (1867); "Condensed Novels" (1867); "The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches" (1870); "Plain Language from Truthful James" (1870), illustrated edition; "The Heathen Chinee" (1871), special edition; "Poems" (1871); "East and West Poems" (1871); "Stories of the Sierras" (1872); "Poetical Works" (1872); "Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands, and Other Sketches"; "M'liss" (1873); "An Episode of Fiddletown, and Other Sketches" (1873); "Echoes of the Foot-Hills" (1875); "Tales of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches" (1875); "Gabriel Conroy" (1876); "Two Men of Sandy Bar" (1876), a drama; "Thankful Blossom" (1877); "The Story of a Mine" (1878); "The Hoodlum Band, and Other Stories" (1878); "Drift from Two Shores" (1878); "An Heiress of Red Dog, and Other Tales" (1879); "The Twins of Marble Mountain, and Other Stories" (1879); "Complete Works" (1882); "Flip and Other Stories" (1882); "In the Carquinez Woods" (1884); "On the Frontier" (1884); "Maruja" (1885); "By Shore and Sedge" (1885); "Snow Bound at Eagle's" (1885); "The Queen of the Pirate Isle" (1886); "A Millionaire of Rough and Ready" (1887); "Devil's Ford" (1887); "The Crusade of the Excelsior" (1887); "The Argonauts of North Liberty" (1888); "A Phyllis of the Sierras" (1888); "Cressy" (1889); "The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh, and Other Tales" (1889); "A Waif of the Plains" (1890); "A Ward of the Golden Gate" (1890); "A Sappho of Green Springs, and Other Stories" (1891); "Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other People" (1892); "A First Family of Tasajera" (1892); "Susy" (1893); "Sally Dows, and Other Stories" (1893); "A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories" (1894); "The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories" (1894); "Clarence" (1895); "In the Hollow of the Hills" (1895); "Three Partners"; etc.