Paul Kester
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Paul Kester was a U.S. playwright
.
He was the younger brother of Vaughan Kester
and a cousin of William Dean Howells
.
In 1902, with his brother, he purchased and renovated Woodlawn Plantation
. In 1907, he bought Gunston Hall
, where he lived until he sold it in 1913. He moved to live with hs mother, at Belmont.
Kester died at the age of 63 from thrombosis
.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
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He was the younger brother of Vaughan Kester
Vaughan Kester
Vaughan or Vaughn Kester was a U.S. novelist and journalist.He was the elder brother of dramatist and author Paul Kester ....
and a cousin of William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of...
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In 1902, with his brother, he purchased and renovated Woodlawn Plantation
Woodlawn Plantation
Woodlawn Plantation is a historic home located in Fairfax County, Virginia, and was originally a part of Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic plantation estate....
. In 1907, he bought Gunston Hall
Gunston Hall
Gunston Hall is an 18th-century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia, United States of America. The house was the home of the United States Founding Father George Mason. It was located at the center of a 5500 acre plantation...
, where he lived until he sold it in 1913. He moved to live with hs mother, at Belmont.
Kester died at the age of 63 from thrombosis
Thrombosis
Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. When a blood vessel is injured, the body uses platelets and fibrin to form a blood clot to prevent blood loss...
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Plays
- Countess Roudine (1892)
- Eugene AramEugene AramEugene Aram was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad, The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Bulwer Lytton in his 1832 novel Eugene Aram.-Early life:...
(1896) - Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1900)
- When Knighthood Was in Flower (1901)
- The Cavalier (1902)
- Dorothy Vernon of Haddon HallDorothy Vernon of Haddon HallDorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall is a 1902 historical novel written by Charles Major. Following the life and romances of Dorothy Vernon in Elizabethan England, the novel became the year's third most successful novel according to the New York Times annual list of bestselling novels...
(1903) - Friend Hannah (1906)
- Don Quixote (1908)
- The Woman of BronzeThe Woman of BronzeThe Woman of Bronze is a 1923 silent drama film directed by King Vidor and distributed through Metro Pictures. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play by Henry Kistemaekers which starred Margaret Anglin, John Halliday and Mary Fowler...
(1920)
Novels
- The Course of True Love
- His Own Country
The Race problem is always with us, and as my story deals in a serious way with its more serious aspects, I do not think it can be untimely. New phases of this great problem come up form day to day -- but the problem itself is as old as history -- very likely it will remain a problem to the end of history. Racial differences and the prejudices resulting from them have always confronted practical statesmen. The old method of dealing with them was by conquest, subjugation, or extermination. Such methods are now obsolete. Better ones must be found. Understanding must precede intelligent action along any lines, and my reason -- perhaps I would better say my justification -- for writing His Own Country has been my hope and belief that it would bring some little considered phases of this menacing and mighty problem more clearly before the minds of readers who live remote from it, yet whose consent is necessary, as it should be in a democracy, to any adjustment of settlement of living conditions where the races are existing side by side.
External links
- Play list
- Three Mark Twain Plays by Paul Kester (New York Times, January 30, 1902)