Artemus Ward

by James C. Austin

"In this first book on the great nineteenth-century humorist by a literary scholar, one finds that Artemus Ward was really three distinct personalities: Charles F. Browne--printer, newspaper man, and editor--his happy-go-lucky originator; Artemus Ward, exhibitor of wax figures and a traveling menagerie, presenting his homely views on politics, business, reform movements, and social problems in Brownes city column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer; and finally Artemus Ward, the name Browne used on the lecture platform, America's first deadpan comic lecturer."

121 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1964