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William T Adams (Oliver Optic) Autograph

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An "Oliver Optic" Checklist : An Annotated Catalog-Index to the Series, Nonseries Stories, and Magazine Publications of William Taylor Adams by Dolores Blythe Jones (Author)
Book Description - This book provides a detailed listing of titles authored by William Taylor Adams under his own name, as well as under his various pseudonyms. It includes books, book-length serializations, and children's magazines edited by Adams. The main section lists the titles chronologically, providing information on the publisher, illustrators and engravers, and reprint publishers, in addition to story descriptions and review excerpts. Separate listings of series titles, series titles by reprint publishers, publisher names, and serial titles appearing in magazines or newspapers provide additional access to this material. The specialized appendixes include a directory of libraries and special collections throughout the United States with substantial holdings of Adams's work, a brief chronology of Adams and Lee & Shepard, and a listing of Adams's books that were not a part of any series. The secondary bibliography includes articles, books, and dissertations that contain biographical information on Adams, as well as commentary and criticism of his works. The illustrators and engravers index lists the titles in which each artist had creative input; the title index lists the titles and title variations of books, series, magazines, and serializations, and provides cross-references to pertinent entry numbers throughout the work.

About the Author - William Taylor Adams, American author, better known and loved by boys and girls through his pseudonym "Oliver Optic," was born July 30, 1822, in the town of Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, about twenty-five miles from Boston. For twenty years he was a teacher in the Public Schools of Boston, where he came in close contact with boy life. These twenty years taught him how to reach the boy's heart and interest as the popularity of his books attest.

His story writing began in 1850 when he was twenty-eight years old and his first book was published in 1853. He also edited The Oliver Optic Magazine, The Student and Schoolmate, and Our Little Ones.

In 1865 Mr. Adams began writing full time and completed in all about 125 books and more than 1000 stories, always using a pseudonym. Most of his books were published in series. He was a prolific writer and his stories often led their heroes through eccentric yet educational adventures.

In 1869 Mr. Adams served one term in the Massachusetts legislature; he declined a renomination.

William Taylor Adams died at the age of seventy-five, in Boston, March 27, 1897.

 
 
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