The New Student's Reference Work/Bangs, John Kendrick

Bangs, John Kendrick, (1862), American humorist, born at Yonkers, New York, and educated at Columbia College. He early took to literature as a profession, and has been connected editorially or as a writer with Harper's Weekly and Magazine, with Life, the Metropolitan Magazine, etc. He has written a number of amusing and entertaining books, among the best known of which are A Houseboat on the Styx, The Pursuit of the Houseboat, Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica, Coffee and Repartee, Uncle Sam, Trustee, The Idiot at Home, The Bicyclers and Other Farces, Toppleton's Client, A Rebellious Heroine, Olympian Nights and The Enchanted Typewriter.