Henry Kitchell WebsterHenry Kitchell Webster was an American author who lived from September 7, 1875, to December 8, 1932. He was one of the most famous serial writers in the country in the early 1900s. He wrote mystery, family drama, science fiction, and other types of nvels and short stories. He also came up with new ways to make books sell a lot of copies. Towner K. Webster and Emma Josephine Kitchell had one son, Henry Kitchell Webster. He was the oldest child. In 1897, he graduated from Hamilton College and started teaching rhetoric at Union College. In any case, he lived in Evanston, Illinois, for most of his life. Their wedding day was September 7, 1901. After his first books did well, he and Mary took a trip around the world in 1910. There were three boys born to them: Henry Kitchell Jr. (1905), Stokely (1912), who became a famous impressionist painter, and Roderick (1915), who was Chairman of the Adler Planetarium and a donor to its Webster Institute. The family lived and traveled in Europe for a year in 1922. Their Paris apartment was on the Rive Gauche, and Stokely learned painting with Lawton S. Parker, an American artist who was a family friend. Webster was friends with a lot of artists and opera singers, like Ethel Barrymore, who played the lead role in his Broadway play June Madness in 1912. Read More Read Less
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