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3 unusual facts about Thomas Beer


Thomas Beer

His fiction may have influenced such modernists as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

After Beer's death of a heart attack in his apartment in the Hotel Albert in New York, another collection of his short stories, edited by Wilson Follett, was published as Mrs. Egg and Other Americans: Collected Stories (1947).

Beer was best known for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and Mark Hanna (1929), as well as his study of American manners during the 1890s, The Mauve Decade (1926).



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