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Moody (WILLIAM VAUGHAN dramatist)

WILLIAM VAUGHAN, dramatist and poet; born Spencer, Ind., in 1869, he studied at Harvard, and was instructor in English there for a couple of years, leaving in 1895 to teach English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago. His first published work was "The Mask of Judgment," which appeared in 1900, while he was still instructor at Chicago. In the following year he brought out "Poems," and in 1904 "The Fire-Bringer." These works attracted immediate attention by their original note. Three years passed before the appearance of his next work and the interval was well employed, for "The ace (1777), and manufactures of cottons, Great Divide" which appeared in 1907 hats, leather, etc. The ancient capital ranks high among American plays. In of the Lombard sovereigns owed much the same year appeared a "History of to Theodelinda; and and in the Middle Ages, English Literature," in which he had in spite of 32 sieges, it was conspicuous collaborated with R. R. Lovett, and a for its cloth trade. The cathedral, founded in 595 by Theodelinda, contains many interesting relics of this great queen. The famous Iron Crown, removed to Vienna in 1859, was restored in 1866.

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