George Ade
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George Ade wrote a popular newspaper column, Stories of the Streets and of the Town, for the Chicago Record between 1890 and 1900. These columns were the basis of Artie (1896), Pink Marsh (1897) and Doc Horne (1899). Ade’s greatest success, however, was Fables in Slang (1899), a collection of short sketches that satirized turn-of-the-century manners in breezy vernacular language. Eleven other collections of fables followed. Ade also was a successful writer of musical comedies, including The College Widow (1904).
Body of Work
Ade’s fables. | Artie, a story of the streets and town | Bang! Bang! A Collection of Stories Intended to Recall Memories of the Nickel Library Days When Boys Were Supermen and Murder a Fine Art: A Collection | Breaking into society. | Circus day. | Doc’ horne, a story of the streets and town. | Fables in Slang | Forty modern fables. | Hand-made fables. | I KNEW HIM WHEN : | In babel : | In pastures new | Knocking the neighbors | More Fables | One afternoon with Mark Twain | People You Know | Pink Marsh | Single Blessedness And Other Observations | Stories of Chicago | The Girl Proposition | The Slim Princess | The old-time saloon : | True bills. | VERSES AND JINGLES, The Indiana Society of Chicago