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Wright (HAROLD BELL an American writer)

HAROLD BELL, an American writer, born in Rome, N. Y., in 1872. He received an academic education, and from 1892 to 1897 he was a landscape painter. In the latter year he was ordained a minister of the Christian church, and served as pastor in several cities in Kansas, Missouri, and other States. He retired from the ministry in 1908. His first novel "That Printer of Udell's" (1903), was widely read. This was followed by "The Shepherd of the Hills" (1907); "The Calling of Dan Matthews" (1909); "The Uncrowned King" (1910); "The Winning of Barbara Worth" (1911); "The Eyes of the World" (1914); "The Re- Creation of Brian Kent" (1919). These books achieved a wider sale than those of any other American writer during the period in which they were written.