Melville Davisson Post Birth Date Mystery Solved
Chris Routledge (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Yesterday I was researching a short piece on Melville Davisson Post, the magazine short story writer who created Uncle Abner, a Jeffersonian-era detective from the backwoods of Virginia. For a time at the start of the twentieth century Post was apparently the best-paid magazine short story writer in the United States. His first creation, a [...]