Opie Percival Read (1852-1939)

Biography

Printer, writer and humorist, Opie Read was a popular novelist and short story writer. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but lived for most of his professional life in Chicago, Illinois. Read attended Neophogen College in Gallatin, Tennessee. Before moving to Illinois, he was the editor of the Statesville Argus (KY), the Bowling Green Pantograph, the Courier-Journal (Louisville), the Evening Post (Little Rock), the Gazette (Little Rock), and the Arkansas Traveler.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Up Terrapin River (1888)
• Mrs. Annie Green (1889)
• Len Gansett (1889)
• A Kentucky Colonel (1890)
• Emmett Bonlore (1891)
• A Tennesse Judge (1893)
• The Colossus (1893)
• The Carpetbagger (1893)
• The Wives of the Prophet (1894)
• On the Suwanee River (1895)
• An Arkansas Planter (1896)
• The Jucklins (1896)
• My Young Master (1896)
• Old Ebenezer (1897)
• Bolanyo (1897)
• Odd Folks (1897)
• The Waters of Caney Fork (1898)
• A Yankee from the West (1898)
• Judge Elbridge (1899)
• Old Lim Jucklin: The Opinions of an Open-air Philosopher (1900)
• In the Alamo (19??)
• My Friends in Arkansaw (1909)
• The Starbucks (1902)
• The Harkriders (1903)
• Confessions of Marguerite: The Story of a Girl's Heart (1903)
• "Turk" (1904)
• The Sun of the Swordmaker (1905)
• The Colonel and the Widow (1905)
• The Mystery of Margaret (1906)
• "By the Eternal" (1906)
• The Queen's Robe (1908)
• The New Mr. Howerson (1914)

Non-Fiction

• I Remember (1900)
• Glimpses and Epigrams (1902)
• Sketches and Humor (1903)
• The American Cavalier (1904)
• Adventures of a Vice-President: A Fable of Our Own Times (1904)
• Mark Twain and I (1940)

Short Fiction

• Plantation Yarns and Bayou Stories (1890)
• Opie Read in Arkansas and What He Saw There; Comprimising Popluar Stories by this Famous Author (1891)
• Twenty Good Stories (1891)
• A Kentucky Editor and Other Stories (1891)
• Selected Stories (1891)
• Ten Funny Stories (1891)
• Toothpick Tales (1892)
• Miss Madam and Other Sketches (1892)
• The Tear in the Cup and Other Stories (1894)
• Miss Polly Lopp and Other Stories (1895)
• The Captain's Romance, or Tales of the Backwoods (1896)
• Kentucky Yarns (1900)
• Stories (1901)
• Our Joesephine and Other Tales (1902)
• The Club Woman and the Hero (1903)
• The Fiddle and the Fawn and Other Stories (1903)
• Opie Read in the Ozarks: Including Many of the Rich, Rare, Quaint, Eccentric, Ignorant and Superstitious Sayings of the Natives of Missouri and Arkansaw (1905)
• The Bandit's Sweetheart (1907)
• Tales of the South (1912)
• Second Suds Sayings: A Collection of Stories, Sketches and Articles Regarding the Laundry (1919)

Young Adult

• Tom and the Squatter's Son (1910)
• The Gold Gauze Veil (1927)

Sources and Links

• Tennessee Authors
• "Opie (Percival) Read" Contemporary Authors. Vol. 183. Scot Peacock, Managing Ed. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 315-317.

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