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Owen McMahon Johnson (August 27, 1878 – January 27, 1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover.
Owen Johnson has 38 books on Goodreads with 1078 ratings. Owen Johnson’s most popular book is Stover at Yale.
The collection consists of correspondence, campaign materials, writings, drawings, photographs, personal and professional papers, and printed material relating to or by American author Owen Johnson.
Stover at Yale, by Owen Johnson is a novel describing undergraduate life at Yale at the turn of the 20th century. The book was described by F. Scott Fitzgerald as the "textbook" of his generation.
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Owen McMahon Johnson was an American writer. He wrote about marriage, divorce, and golf. From 1931 onward he became less productive, as his interest in politics grew and he ran without success for the House of Representatives in 1936 and 1938.
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The U.S. author Owen Johnson is best known for his semiautobiographical series of novels about academic life. He also wrote a number of less successful books set in high society. Owen McMahon Johnson was born in New York City on Aug. 27, 1878, the son of poet and writer Robert Underwood Johnson.
Owen Johnson, American novelist and short-story writer, was born in New York City on August 27, 1878. He attended the Lawrenceville School where he founded and edited The Lawrenceville Literary Magazine .
