Author:Jesse Lynch Williams

Jesse Lynch Williams
(1871–1929)

Jesse Lynch Williams

Works

Novels and short story collections

• The Stolen Story and Other Newspaper Stories (1899) short stories (transcription project)
• The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories (1908) short stories
• The Married Life of the Frederic Carrolls (1910) (transcription project)

• The Day-Dreamer: Being the Full Narrative of "The Stolen Story" (1906)
• Princeton Stories (1895) short stories IA : PG
• The Adventures of a Freshman (1899) IA : PG
• New York Sketches (1902) IA : PG
• Remating Time (1916) (dramatized as Why Not (1922)) hathitrust
• My Lost Duchess, an Idyl of the Town IA
• Mr. Cleveland: a Personal Impression (1909) IA

Plays

• The Stolen Story (1906)
• "And So They Were Married," a comedy of the new woman (1914 IA)
• Why Marry? (1918) [Pulitzer Prize] (transcription project)
• Why Not (1922) (dramatization of Remating Time, 1916)
• Lovely Lady (??)

Individual short works

• The Stolen Story and Other Newspaper Stories (1899) short stories
  • The Stolen Story
  • The New Reporter
  • Mrs. H. Harrison Wells's Shoes
  • The Great Secretary-of-State Interview
  • The City Editor's Conscience
  • The Cub Reporter and the King of Spain
  • The Old Reporter
• The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories (1908) short stories
  • The Girl and the Game
  • The College and the Circus
  • At the Corner of Lovers' Lane
  • Leg Pull
  • Reddy Armstrong's Reformation
  • The Advantages of a College Education
  • The Man in the Window
  • What the Old Graduate Learned
  • Talks with a Kid Brother
    • The First Day at College — On Hazing — Trying for the Team — Concerning Horse-Play — Concerning the "Nicest Fellows" — Work and Other Dissipations — The Best Thing in the World — An Unofficial Baccalaureate

Short works from magazines

• "Back to the Town; or, The Return to Human Nature" (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1915
• "The Color Scheme at the New Panama-Pacific Exposition" (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Sep 1914
• "The Girl from the Machine" (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Oct 1906
• ' "Good Hunting" ' (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1916
• "Barrie: A Triumph of Personality," (essay) Appleton's Magazine, 1906
• "Remating Time" (novella) Scribner's Magazine, Jan-Mar 1916
• "The Walk Up-town in New York" (nf) Scribner's Magazine, Jan 1900