Arlo Bates

About

A prolific American writer, poet, literary critic, essayist, educator, and newspaper editor, he is most famous for his novels The Pagans, The Philistines, and The Puritans (published between 1884 and 1889). His other works include Love in a Cloud and Sonnets in Shadow.

Before Fame

He graduated in 1876 from Bowdoin College and began editing the Boston Sunday Courier four years later. He subsequently accepted a professorship in English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Trivia

He became a 1900 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Family Life

He married Harriet L. Vose in 1882. He and Vose later became parents to a son named Oric.

Associated With

He wrote the introduction to E.P. Whipple's 1912 edition of Charles Dickens' works.