Family: Born July 14, 1860, in Germantown, PA; died of a cerebral hemorrhage, July 21, 1938, in North Kingstown, RI; son of Owen Jones (a physician) and Sarah (a writer, translator, and pianist; maiden name, Butler) Wister; married Mary Channing Wister (a second cousin once removed), 1898 (died 1913); children: three sons, three daughters. Education: Attended schools in Hofwyl, Switzerland, 1870-71, and in England, 1871-72; attended Germantown Academy, 1872, and St. Paul's School (Concord, NH), 1873-78; Harvard University, B.A. (music; summa cum laude), 1882; studied music in Paris, 1882-83; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1888. Memberships: American Academy, Society of Letters, Paris (honorary member), Royal Society of Literature, London (honorary fellow).

FICTION

• The New Swiss Family Robinson: A Tale for Children of All Ages, first appeared in Harvard Lampoon, 1882, Charles W. Sever, University Bookstore (Cambridge, MA), 1882, edition illustrated by F. Nichols, Duffield, 1922.
• The Dragon of Wantley, His Rise, His Voracity, and His Downfall: A Romance, illustrated by John Stewardson, Lippincott (Philadelphia), 1892.
• Red Men and White (stories), illustrated by Frederic Remington, Harper (New York, NY), 1896, Garrett Press (New York, NY), 1969.
• Lin McLean, Harper (New York City and London), 1898, Literature House (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 1970.
• The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories (stories), Harper, 1900, Garrett Press (New York, NY), 1969, published as Hank's Woman in Volume 3 of The Writings of Owen Wister, 1928.
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, illustrated by Arthur I. Keller, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1902, Harper, 1965, illustrated with drawings by Charles M. Russell and paintings by Frederic Remington, Macmillan (New York City and London), 1911, Citadel Press (Secaucus, NJ), 1984, illustrated with scenes from the all-talking photoplay produced by Paramount, Grosset (New York, NY), 1925, illustrated by Clarence Rowe, edited by James Fleming Hosic, revised by H. Y. Moffett, Macmillan, 1930, illustrated by William Moyers, introduction by Struthers Burt, Limited Editions, 1951, Heritage Press, 1958, illustrated by Sol Korby, adapted and abridged by R. J. Cohn, Grosset, 1963, illustrated by Don Irwin, Children's Press (Chicago) and Classic Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1968, published with photos of the author, his environment, and the setting, introduction by John Q. Anderson, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1968, published with drawings by Charles M. Russell and paintings by Arthur I. Keller, afterword by John L. Cobbs, Reader's Digest Association (Pleasantville, NY), 1988, published with introduction and notes by John Seelye, Penguin (New York, NY), 1988, published with introduction by Thomas McGuane, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1992, large print edition published by G. K. Hall (Thorndike, ME), 1993, illustrated by Charles M. Russell, Gramercy Books (New York, NY), 1995.
• Philosophy Four: A Story of Harvard University, Macmillan, 1903.
• A Journey in Search of Christmas (story), illustrated by Frederic Remington, Harper, 1904.
• Lady Baltimore, illustrated by Vernon Howe Bailey and Lester Ralph, Macmillan, 1906, Buccaneer Books, 1977; published with preface by Thomas Fleming, J. S. Sanders & Co. (Nashville, TN)., 1992.
• How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee, illustrated by F. R. Gruger, Macmillan, 1907.
• Mother, illustrated by John Rae, Dodd, Mead (New York City) 1907.
• Members of the Family, illustrated by H. T. Dunn, Macmillan, 1911.
• Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation (stories), Harper, 1911; illustrated by Zack Hogg, Harper, 1925.
• When West Was West, Macmillan, 1928.

• Dido and Aeneas, with music by Wister, produced 1882.
• (With Kirke La Shelle) The Virginian (based on Wister's novel), produced on Broadway, January 5, 1904, and in numerous road and summer-stock productions.
• Watch Your Thirst: A Dry Opera, Macmillan, 1923, revised as Honeymoon Shiners in Writings, 1928.
• (With La Shelle) The Vain, 1958.

• Done in the Open, illustrated by Frederic Remington, 1903.
• (Compiler) Indispensable Information for Infants; or, Easy Entrance to Education, Macmillan, 1921.

• Ulysses S. Grant, Small, Maynard (Boston), 1900.
• (With Caspar Whitney and George Bird Grinnell) Musk-ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat, Macmillan, 1904.
• The Seven Ages of Washington: A Biography, Macmillan, 1907.
• The Pentecost of Calamity (essay), Macmillan, 1915.
• A Straight Deal; or, The Ancient Grudge (essay), Macmillan, 1920.
• Neighbors Henceforth, Macmillan, 1922.
• Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919, Macmillan (New York City), 1930, published as Theodore Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919, Macmillan (London), 1930.
• Two Appreciations of John Jay Chapman, privately printed (New York City), 1934.

• The Writings of Owen Wister, eleven volumes, Macmillan, 1928.
• (With Frances Kemble Wister Stokes) My Father, Owen Wister, and Ten Letters . . . To His Mother During His First Trip to Wyoming in 1885, 1952.
• Owen Wister Out West: His Journals and Letters, edited by Fanny Kemble Wister, University of Chicago Press, 1958.
• The West of Owen Wister: Selected Short Stories, introduction by Robert L. Hough, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1972.
• My Dear Wister: The Frederic Remington-Wister Letters, edited by Ben Vorpahl, foreword by Wallace Stegner, American West (Palo Alto, CA), 1972.
• That I May Tell You: Journals and Letters of the Owen Wister Family, edited by Fanny Kemble Wister, Haverford House (Wayne, PA), 1979.
• Owen Wister's Medicine Bow (includes selections from The Virginian), photographs by Tryntje Van Ness Seymour, limited edition, Lime Rock Press (Salisbury, CT), 1981.
• Owen Wister's West: Selected Articles, edited by Robert Murray Davis, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque), 1987.

"The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September, 1895, included as preface to Red Men and White in The Writings of Owen Wister, 1928. OTHER

Contributor of stories and verse to periodicals including Harper's Weekly, Saturday Evening Post, Lippincott's, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's New Monthly, Outlook, and Collier's Weekly. Wrote preface to Drawings of Frederic Remington, c. 1898.