Stark young biography

  • Stark Young was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic, translator, and essayist.
  • Stark Young (October 11, 1881 – January 6, 1963) was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic, translator, and essayist.
  • A teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, and theater critic, Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi, on 11 October 1881.

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    Stark Young

    Major Works

    Plays

    • Two Plays for Children, 1926
    • Theatre Practice, 1926
    • Sweet Times and Blue Policeman (1925)
    • The Saint (play), 1925
    • The Colonnade (play), 1924
    • The Three Fountains(sketches), 1924
    • The Flower in Drama, 1923
    • Three Plays, 1919
    • Addio, Madretto, and Other Plays, 1912
    • Six One-Act Plays, 1911
    • Guenevere (verse play), 1906

    Poetry

    • The Blind Man at the Window (poems), 1906

      Stark Young portrait in Ole Miss library. Photo by Nancy Jacobs

    Essays

    • Glamour (essay), 1926
    • Encaustics (1926)

    Novels and Nonfiction

    • The Pavilion: Of People and Times Remembered, of Stories and Places (autobiography), 1951
    • Immortal Shadows (dramatic criticism), 1948
    • A Southern Treasury of Life and Literature (ed.), 1937;
    • So Red the Rose (1934)
    • River House (1929)
    • The Theatre (1927)
    • The Torches Flare (1927)
    • Heaven Trees (1926)

    Translations

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    • stark young biography

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      STARK, MARK YOUNG, Presbyterian minister; b. 9 Nov. 1799 at Dunfermline, Fife County, Scotland, son of Robert Stark and Elizabeth Young; m. 22 June 1835 Agatha Georgiana Street, and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 24 Jan. 1866 at Dundas, Canada West.

      Mark Young Stark’s mother having died in his infancy, he was raised by his stepmother, Mary Bannatyne, member of a prominent Glasgow family. After private tutelage in Essex, England, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow, graduating ma in classics in 1821. He completed theological studies at Glasgow in 1824 and was licensed to preach by the Glasgow presbytery of the Church of Scotland.

      Stark was unable to secure a call under the oppressive patronage system that existed in the Church of Scotland, in spite of illustrious support from Professor Dugald Stewart and Sir George Napier. He travelled extensively on the Continent, becoming proficient in French, German, and Italian. His cultu

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      Stark Young

      American writer (1881–1963)

      Stark Young (October 11, 1881 – January 6, 1963) was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic, translator, and essayist.

      Early life

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      Young was born on October 11, 1881, in Como, Mississippi. His father, Alfred Alexander Young, was a physician. His mother, Mary Clark Starks, was a direkt descendant of the McGehees, an old planter family; she died when he was nine years old.[1] Shortly after her death, Young was sent to live at the McGehee Plantation in Senatobia, Mississippi.[1]

      Young entered the University of Mississippi at the age of 15 and graduated from that institution in 1901. He completed his Master's grad at Columbia University in New York in 1902.

      Career

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      Young taught at the University of Mississippi in 1905-1907, and then moved to the University of Texas at Austin. There he established the Texas Review and became involved with theater. In 1915 he moved