Ade, George

Ade, George

(1866–1944) journalist, writer, playwright; born in Kentland, Ind. He was a Chicago newspaperman (1890–1900) whose collected columns, Fables in Slang (1899), became a classic of midwestern vernacular satire. He continued to publish more collections of his "fables," and between 1900–10 he wrote a dozen popular Broadway plays and musicals. Collections of his trademark fables, such as People You Know (1903) and Hand-Made Fables (1920), are the most durable of his voluminous writings. He lived in Indiana after 1904 but traveled widely.

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