Page, Thomas Nelson
Page, Thomas Nelson( 1853–1922),Virginia author distinguished as a leader of the local-color movement. His first short story appeared in 1884, and in 1893 he forsook his legal career to become a professional writer. His first volume of stories, In Ole Virginia (1887), depicts romantic aspects of his region before and during the Civil War. Frequently employing Negro dialect, his stories are generally concerned sentimentally with the aristocratic Old South, as in such collections as Elsket and Other Stories (1891), The Burial of the Guns (1894), and Bred in the Bone (1904). Page's novels, dealing with the same background, include On Newfound River (1891), the story of a Virginia feud in the period before the Civil War; The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (1897), a romantic tale of an old man who reunites a quarreling pair of young lovers; Red Rock (1898), telling of the oppressive military rule of the...
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