Edward Noyes Westcott
Edward Noyes Westcott (September 27, 1846 – March 31, 1898) was an American banker and author. His father was influential professor, dentist, dental college founder, and politician Amos Westcott who served as mayor of Syracuse. Edward's brother Frank Nash Westcott was a minister and author who wrote on Catholicism and two novels.
David Harum[]
Westcott is known best for his book David Harum, a novel set in upstate New York. When he was afflicted with chronic tuberculosis in 1895, he was forced to take an extended leave from work, and during that period he wrote David Harum. The manuscript was rejected by several publishers before it came to Ripley Hitchcock at D. Appleton & Company in December 1897.[1] With Westcott's permission Ripley made a few minor changes to the book which subsequently became a bestseller.
References[]
- ^ West, James L. W. (1990). American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1330-0.
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- "Edward Noyes Westcott" – Encyclopædia Britannica
- "In Pathetic Remembrance", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
- Works by Edward Noyes Westcott at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edward Noyes Westcott at Internet Archive
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