Henry Shute
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Henry Shute (Henry Augustus Shute; 1856-1943) was born and lived in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1875) and Harvard University (1879). He was a lawyer and a judge of the municipal court.
In the 1890s, the Exeter News-Letter began publishing a weekly column of Shute's recollections of his boyhood in Exeter. These were self-published by Shute under the titles of "Several Hard Characters" (1898) and "Neighborhood Sketches" (1901). In 1902, his third book, The Real Diary of a Real Boy was published which provided Shute with national recognition. He went on to write a total of twenty books, including Brite and Fair (1920) and published extensively in the Saturday Evening Post (1925-1928). Additional books include "Sequil to the Real Diary" (1904), "Real Boys" (1905), "Letters to Beany" (1905), "A Few Neighbors" (1906), "A Profane and Somewhat Unreliable History of Exeter"(1907), "The Country Band" (1909), "A Country Lawyer" (1909), "Plupy the Real Boy" (1911), "The Misadventures of Three Good Boys" (1914), "The Youth Plupy or the Lad with the Downy Chin"(1917), "The Real Diary of the Worst Farmer"(1920), "Plupy and Old J Albert"(1924), "Plupy, Beany and Pewt; Contractors"(1926), "Chadwick & Shute, Gob Printers"(1927), "Plupy, The Wirst Yet"(1929).
