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Jesse Lynch Williams was born on 17 August, 1871 in Sterling, Illinois, is an American dramatist. Discover Jesse Lynch Williams's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, novelist, playwright
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 17 August, 1871
Birthday 17 August
Birthplace Sterling, Illinois
Date of death 14 September, 1929
Died Place Herkimer, New York
Nationality United States

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Parents Rev. Meade Creighton Williams Elizabeth Brown (Riddle) Williams
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1871

Jesse Lynch Williams (August 17, 1871 – September 14, 1929) was an American author and dramatist.

Born in Sterling, Illinois, on August 17, 1871, to Elizabeth Brown (Riddle) and Rev. Meade Creighton Williams, pastor of a Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Missouri.

His father wrote Early Mackinac and was the editor of a Presbyterian journal.

Jesse's brothers were David.

R. Williams, of St. Louis, and Terrell Williams, a law school professor of Washington University in St. Louis.

His grandfather, also Jesse Lynch Williams, was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the government director of the roads.

He was an engineer and constructor for the Union Pacific Railroad.

Williams studied at Beloit Academy.

He began his literary career in college.

He won the Nassau Literary Magazine short story contest in his junior year.

1890

He wrote a number of short stories starting in the 1890s.

1892

He received his bachelor's degree in 1892.

1893

Beginning in 1893, he was a reporter for The Sun (New York City), and wrote fiction on the side.

1895

As a graduate student at Princeton University, he wrote Princeton Stories (1895) which often featured the daily life of an undergraduate football player.

He graduated from Princeton with a master's degree in 1895.

He joined the staff at the New York Commercial Advertiser (The New York Globe) from 1895 to 1897, followed by the Scribner's Magazine.

1898

In 1898, he wrote The History of Princeton University with John de Witt.

He and Booth Tarkington co-founded the Triangle Club at Princeton and edited The Lit.

He was married to Alice Laidlaw (1872–1960, daughter of Elizabeth C. Onderdonk and Henry Bell Laidlaw, on June 1, 1898, in New York. They had three children, Henry Meade, Jesse Lynch, and Laidlaw Onderdonk Williams. They lived in Princeton, New Jersey. Alice graduated from Veltin School for Girls in 1892. She was a member of the Audubon Society and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and a number of organizations, including sitting on the executive board of the New Jersey Equal Franchise Society. She wrote a book entitled Sunday Suppers (1912).

1899

His novels and stories include Princeton Stories, The Adventures of a Freshman (1899), The Girl and the Game (1908), The Married Life of the Frederic Carrolls (1910), and She Knew She Was Right.

He was a member of the Authors League of America, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and other organizations, in which he sometimes had a leadership role.

1900

For three years, beginning in 1900, he co-founded and was the first editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Robert Frost wrote a recommendation to the University of Michigan regarding his suitability for the Fellowship of Creative Arts.

Frost indicated that Williams was relevant, open-minded, practical, a "good all-around participator", and, along with his wife, good company.

From 1900 to 1903, he was the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, after which he worked full-time writing plays and novels.

1906

He wrote the play The Stolen Story (1906), based upon his times as a reporter, which he first wrote as a short story, The Stolen Story and Other Newspaper Stories. He wrote the play The Stolen Story (1906), based upon his times as a reporter.

1917

He won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Why Marry? (1917).

He was a journalist for three New York publications and co-founded the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Princeton Triangle Club.

His plays Why Marry? (1917) and Why Not (1922), and Lovely Lady (1925) were produced on Broadway.

Why Not explores the experiences of divorce.

Lovely Lady is about the attempts of a lady to attract the attentions of a lawyer and his son.

1919

He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Princeton in 1919.

1925

During the 1925–1926 academic year, he held the Fellowship in Creative Arts at the University of Michigan.

1929

He wrote four plays and six novels by 1929, including Why Marry? (1917), for which he was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Williams died of a heart attack on September 14, 1929, at the home of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson in Jordanville, New York or Herkimer, New York.