Burton Egbert Stevenson was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born at Chillicothe, Ohio

Chillicothe, Ohio

Chillicothe is a city in and the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States.Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio and is located in southern Ohio along the Scioto River. The name comes from the Shawnee name Chalahgawtha, meaning "principal town", as it was a major settlement of...

 on 9 November 1872, and attended Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 1890–1893. He married Elizabeth Shepard Butler (1869–1960) in 1895. He died 13 May 1962 and was buried in Chillicothe, Ohio.

While at Princeton, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune

New York Tribune

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. He was city editor for the Chillicothe Daily News (1894–1898), and worked for the Daily Advertiser (1898–1899).

Stevenson became director of the Chillicothe public library in 1899 and held that position for 58 years.

Stevenson was well known for his war efforts. At Camp Sherman

Camp Sherman, Ohio

Camp Sherman is an Ohio Army National Guard training site near Chillicothe, Ohio. It was established in 1917 after the U.S. entered World War I and today serves as a training site for National Guard soldiers. In 2009 the remaining National Guard facility was renamed Camp Sherman Joint Training...

, located in Chillicothe, Ohio, he established a library of 40,000 volumes and 22 branches. The Camp Sherman library was said to be a model for national efforts to establish such libraries. In 1918 he founded the American Library in Paris, and was its director from 1918–1920, and from 1925–1930. He was then made European director of the American Library Association

American Library Association

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`s Library War Service, a position he held for seven years.

As well as being a librarian, Stevenson wrote numerous novels, including four young adult's novels, edited others' works, and created numerous anthologies of verse, familiar quotations, and the like. Many of his anthologies are still in print.

Marietta College

Marietta College

Marietta College is a co-educational private college in Marietta, Ohio, USA, which was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory. The school offers 42 majors along with a large number of minors, all of which are grounded in a strong liberal arts foundation...

 awarded him the degree of Litt.D. in 1955. Stevenson Center at Ohio University-Chillicothe

Ohio University-Chillicothe

Sitting atop the hills represented in the Great Seal of Ohio, Ohio University – Chillicothe is a non-residential regional campus with an enrollment of more than 2,500 students. For more than 60 years, OU-C has remained devoted to its mission of preparing students for the challenges of tomorrow and...

 is named after him.

Works

• A soldier of Virginia; a Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock’s defeat (1901)
• Cadets of Gascony: Two stories of old France (1904)
• The Marathon mystery; a Story of Manhattan (1904)
• The Holliday case; a Tale (1904)
• The girl with the blue sailor (1906)
• Affairs of state; Being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills (1906)
• The path of honor; a Tale of war in the Bocage (1910)
• The spell of Holland: the Story of a pilgrimage to the land of dykes and windmills (1911)
• The mystery of the Boule cabinet; a Detective story (1911)
• Mysterium arcae Boule (Latin version of The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet)
• The destroyer; a Tale of international intrigue (1913)
• American men of mind (1913)
• The charm of Ireland (1914)
• The girl from Alsace; a Romance of the great war (1915). Originally published as Little Comrade.
• A king in Babylon (1917)
• The gloved hand; a Detective story (1920)
• The kingmakers (1922)
• The house next door; a Detective story (1932)
• The quest for the rose of Sharon (1909)
• The heritage; a Story of defeat and victory (1902)
• At odds with the regent; a Story of the cellamare conspiracy (1905)
• [The mystery of] Villa Aurelia; a Riviera interlude (1932)
• The red carnation; an Antony Bigelow story (1939)
• The clue of the red carnation (1942)

Young Adult's Novels

• Tommy Remington's battle (1902)
• The young section-hand (1905)
• The young train dispatcher (1907)
• The young train master (1909)

Anthologies

• The home book of verse (1912)
• Poems of American history (1922)
• Great Americans as seen by the poets (1933)
• The home book of Bible quotations (1949)
• The home book of proverbs, maxims, and familiar phrases (1959)
• American history in verse for boys and girls (1960)
• The home book of modern verse; an extension of the home book of verse; being a selection from American and English poetry of the twentieth century (1960)
• The home book of great poetry; a treasury of over one thousand favorite poems
• Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them
• The home book of verse for young folks
• The home book of Shakespeare quotations; being also a concordance & a glossary of the unique words & phrases in the plays & poems

External links

• Filmography at IMDB