Joseph Kirkland

This article is about the novelist. For the record producer, see Diamond D. For the 19th-century New York politician, see Joseph Kirkland (congressman).

Joseph Kirkland, 1884

Joseph Kirkland (January 7, 1830 - April 29, 1894) was an American novelist. Born in Geneva, New York, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major. After the war he became a lawyer while also pursuing writing. He is remembered as the author of two realistic novels of pioneer life in the Far West, Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County and The McVeys. Other works are The Captain of Company K and The Story of Chicago. He was also the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune. Kirkland died in Chicago in 1894, at the age of 64.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.

External links

• Joseph Kirkland - bibliographical overview, links to works online
• Joseph Kirkland Papers at the Newberry Library