Joseph Hergesheimer

HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH ), American author, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Feb. 15, 188o, and was educated at a Quaker school there and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As a writer of fiction he is distinguished by the warmth and colour of his descriptive pas sages and by his psychological insight.

His publications include:

The Lay Anthony (1914) ; Mountain Blood (1915) ; The Three Black Pennys (1917) ; Gold and Iron (1918) ; Java Head (i919) ; Linda Condon (1919) ; San Cristobal de la Habana (192o) ; Cytherea (1922) ; The Bright Shawl (1922) ; Balis and (1924) ; Tampico (1926) ; and Quiet Cities (1928).