Author talk:James Otis Kaler

Sources

Name: James Otis
Birth Year: 1848
Death Year: 1912

Source:

• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
• American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (AmAu&B)
• Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern. Edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1902. (BiD&SB)
• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 15: September, 1986-August, 1988. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1988. (BioIn 15)
• A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
• A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA) Dictionary of Pseudonyms. Third edition. By Adrian Room. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998. (DcPseud)
• The Junior Book of Authors. An introduction to the lives of writers and illustrators for younger readers from Lewis Carroll and Louisa Alcott to the present day. First edition. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1934. (JBA 1)
• The Junior Book of Authors. Second edition, revised. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1951. (JBA 2)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fourth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (OxCAmL 4)
• The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. By Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1984. (OxCChiL)
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A checklist, 1700-1974. Volume 1. By R. Reginald. Detroit: Gale Research, 1979. (ScF&FL 1)
• St. James Guide to Children's Writers. Fifth edition. Edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999. Earlier editions published as Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. Appendix begins on page 1165. (SJGChWr 5A)
• Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. Second edition. Edited by D.L. Kirkpatrick. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Later editions published as St. James Guide to Children's Writers. Appendix begins on page 859. (TwCChW 2A)
• Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. Third edition. Edited by Tracy Chevalier. Chicago: St. James Press, 1989. Later editions published as St. James Guide to Children's Writers. Appendix begins on page 1083. (TwCChW 3A)
• Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. Fourth edition. Detroit: St. James Press, 1995. Later editions published as St. James Guide to Children's Writers. Appendix begins on page 1067. (TwCChW 4A)

 Comment there is most likely to be a munging of sources and people in that space. That list doesn't seem to overly reflect a small time author not otherwise notable. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:38, 29 June 2019 (UTC)