The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Johnson, Owen

JOHNSON, Owen, American author: b. New York, 27 Aug. 1878. He is a son of Robert Underwood Johnson and was graduated at Yale in 1901. His story of school life &lsquo;The Varmint&rsquo; (1910), with its boyish high spirits, cleverness and wholesomeness, is perhaps his best work. &lsquo;Stover at Yale&rsquo; (1911), a college story, frank in its criticisms of certain phases of life at Yale, aroused a storm of controversy. He has also written &lsquo;Arrows of the Almighty&rsquo; (1901); &lsquo;In the Name of Liberty&rsquo; (1905); &lsquo;Max Fargus&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;The Eternal Boy&rsquo; (1909); &lsquo;The Humming Bird&rsquo; (1910); &lsquo;Tennessee Shad&rsquo; (1911); &lsquo;The Sixty-first Second&rsquo; (1912); &lsquo;The Salamander&rsquo; (1914), later dramatized; &lsquo;Murder in Any Degree&rsquo; (1914); &lsquo;Making Money&rsquo; (1914); &lsquo;The Woman Gives&rsquo; (1915). He also wrote the plays &lsquo;The Comet&rsquo; (1908); &lsquo;Comedy for Wives&rsquo; (1912), and an adaptation from the French, &lsquo;The Return from Jerusalem&rsquo; (1912); &lsquo;Virtuous Wives&rsquo; (1918).