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Bret Harte was an American author who is often credited as one of the early pioneers of the local-color movement in American fiction, which emphasized the dialect, folklore, and often nostalgia of a certain region or bygone era, much like the regionalism movement that would follow World War II. Born in Albany, New York, Harte grew up in Brooklyn, where he had only an intermittent education. Nonetheless, he loved reading and writing, and published his first poem at the age of
Like his future collaborator, Mark Twain, Harte frequently contributed to newspapers like the Northern Californian and Atlantic Monthly, often publishing his progressive ideas about race and tolerance in America only to meet public consternation. In , for example, he published an opinion piece in the Northern Californian criticizing a recent massacre of Native Americans. The piece was so unpopular that he had to leave town. Indeed, his role as an outsider in such cases ties into the themes of unjust exile present in stories like "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," which he published in the Overland Monthly in
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Bret Harte loved the West and its people. Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York, in His father was a professor of Greek at Albany College, and died during the boyhood of his son. Bret Harte, after a common school education, went with his mother to California at the age of seventeen. There he became a jack of all trades, but, contrary to the old saying, he became master of one &#; short story writing. At various times he was a teacher, miner, printer, express messenger, secretary of the San Francisco Mint, and editor.
The stir of life in San Francisco stimulated Bret Harte in the years following the gold rush of Here he found human nature in the raw. There was no veneer. The community had not yet turned aside from digging and panning, winning and losing, long enough to look to its lawless community affairs. It is as a story teller that Bret Harte painted the most thrilling pictures of that time.
Bret Harte wrote a great deal. Forty-four volumes were published by him between and He was professor in the University of California for one year. He moved to New York in and lived there until During the next two years he was United States Consul at Crefeld, Germany, and from to Consu
Bret Harte in California
He was born Francis Brett Hart in Albany, New York on August 25, His father soon changed the spelling of the family name to Harte and the young Francis changed the spelling of his middle name, which he preferred, to Bret. In his formal schooling ended at age 13 and by young Bret had arrived in California by steamship. He made his way to the Southern mines in , just after most of the easy placer gold had been found and the gold rush was beginning to unwind. He wandered around Calaveras County for a while and wound up in a cabin on Jackass Hill near Angels Camp. Harte found the gold country hard, ugly, unwashed, vulgar, and lawless but it filled him with inspiration. His stories and poems later inspired many to come west.
Bret Harte
Eventually he found himself in the far north of the state along Humboldt Bay writing for a weekly newspaper, but when he wrote an editorial harshly opposing a savage massacre of local Indians he began getting death threats and fled to San Francisco. There he started a successful writing career publishing poetry and prose in The Californian, a literary journal. In he became the editor of The Overland Monthly, a new jo
Bret Harte
"Gary Scharnhorst's biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role.".
"Harte's pioneering use of California local color in such stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte's writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create.".
"The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte's personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West."--BOOK JACKET.
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