Edgar Watson Howe
03-May-1853
United States
Novelist
Howe, Edgar Watson, 1853–1937, American editor and author, b. Agreement, near Wabash, Ind. From 1877 to 1911 he was the editor and owner of Atchison, Kans., Daily Globe, and in 1911 founded W W Howe's Monthly. Published until 1937, this period was marked by the editing of Howe's pithy editorials. His first and most widely regarded novel is The Story of a Country Town (1883), among the first logical novels of the life of small towns in the Midwest and the forerunner of an original novel in American mythology. A former champion of the common people, Howe was named Sage of Potato Hill.