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Williams (JESSE LYNCH an American writer)

JESSE LYNCH, an American writer, born in Sterling, Ill., in 1871. After graduating from Princeton in 1892, he engaged in newspaper work for several years and in 1895 published "Princeton Stories". This was followed by "The Stolen Story, and Other Newspaper Stories" (1891); "New York Sketches" (1902); "The Married Life of the Frederic Carrols" (1910); "And So They Were Married" (1915). He also wrote several successful plays, including "Why Marry," produced in 1917, when he was awarded the Pulitzer prize by Columbia University for the best Ameri- WILLIAMS can play produced in that year. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.