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Reviewed by Barbara A. Stedman | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.1 | The History Cooperative
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March, 2009
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Meredith Nicholson
A Writing Life

By Ralph D. Gray
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 281. Illustrations. $19.95.)

In the early 1900s, Meredith Nichol-son was a household name, not just in Indiana, but in most homes of literate Americans. Acclaimed for his best-selling romantic adventure novels, he was one of four central figures in Indiana's golden age of literature, alongside James Whitcomb Riley, Booth Tarkington, and George Ade. Now, a century later, Nicholson's name is barely recognized—a fact that Ralph D. Gray has sought to remedy with his biography, Meredith Nichol-son: A Writing Life. 1
      Gray, professor emeritus of history at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is best known for his scholarship on the history of transportation and the history of Indiana, which has included brief examinations of Nicholson. He also recently collected his favorite examples of Nicholson's essays and articles in A Meredith Nicholson Reader (2007). Here, however, in what is, surprisingly, the first full biography of the author's life, Gray provides a meticulously researched, richly detailed history of Nicholson's life as both author and diplomat. . . .
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