Henry Kitchell Webster & Dianne L> Durante 
Collected Short Works and Related Correspondence Vol. 4 [EPUB ebook] 
1922-1932

Henry Kitchell Webster: A Short Biography

PART 1: Short Stories

The Other Story

Flashlight

Inside and Out

The Lover: A Story of Marriage

[Untitled short story]

PART 2: Drama

Bluebeard’s First Wife, or How He Got That Way, A Tragedy in One Act

Little Red Riding Hood, A Drama in One Act

What to Do! A Problem in One Act

PART 3: Correspondence Regarding Novels and Short Story Collections

Novels vs. romances

Regarding The Real Adventure

Regarding The Painted Scene

Regarding The Thoroughbred

Regarding The Sturdy Oak

Regarding Hugh Corbett’s Wife

Regarding Youth for Youth

Regarding Mary Wollaston

Regarding Real Life, Into Which Miss Leda Swan of Hollywood Makes an Adventurous Excursion

Regarding Joseph Greer and His Daughter

Regarding The Innocents

Regarding The Hitching Post

Regarding The Corbin Necklace

Regarding The Beginners

Regarding Philopena, 1927

Regarding The Clock Strikes Two

Regarding The Fourth House

Regarding The Quartz Eye: A Mystery in Ultra Violet

Regarding The Sealed Trunk

Regarding The Man with the Scarred Hand

Regarding Who Is the Next?, 1931

Regarding The Alleged Great-Aunt

PART 4: Essays and Speeches Related to Writing and the Arts

Eulogy for Henry Beach Needham, 1915

On Joining a Union

What Authors and Publishers Are Doing

Eulogy on Bert Leston Taylor

Introduction to a Speech by G.K. Chesterton

What Is a Novel, Anyhow?

A Brace of Definitions and Short Code

Introduction by Webster to Charles Collins’s The Sins of Saint Anthony

An Apology for a New Ideal

The Drama of the Romance and of the Teutonic Nations, by a Play Actor

The Glamor of the Stage

The Kind of Audience You Are

On the Novel

On Detective Stories

Introduction to a speech by Rabindranath Tagore

On Painting

Pride of Possession

PART 5: Miscellaneous Correspondence

PART 6: Articles on Webster

A Portrait and a Sketch of Henry Kitchell Webster

Hold Funeral Rites Today for H.K. Webster. Used Chicago Scene in Many of His Books

Literary Circle Mourns Webster

PART 7: Bibliography of Henry Kitchell Webster’s Novels, Short Stories, Movie Scripts, and Nonfiction Essays

About the Editor

At age five, I won my first writing award: a three-foot-long fire truck with an ear-splitting siren. I’ve been addicted to writing ever since. Today I’m an independent researcher, freelance writer, and lecturer. The challenge of figuring out how ideas and facts fit together, and then sharing what I know with others, clearly and concisely – that’s what makes me leap out of bed in the morning. Janson’s *History of Art*, lent to me by a high-school art teacher, was my first clue that art was more than the rock-star posters and garden gnomes that I saw in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, and that history wasn’t just a series of names, dates, and statistics. Soon afterwards I read Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfiction works, and discovered that art and history – as well as politics, ethics, science, and all fields of human knowledge – are integrated by philosophy. My approach to studying art is based on Rand’s *The Romantic Manifesto*. (See my review of it on Amazon.) As an art historian I’m a passionate amateur, and I write for other passionate amateurs. I love looking at art, and thinking about art, and helping other people have a blast looking at it, too. *Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide* (New York University Press, 2007), which includes 54 sculptures, was described by Sam Roberts in the *New York Times* as ‘a perfect walking-tour accompaniment to help New Yorkers and visitors find, identify and better appreciate statues famous and obscure’ (1/28/2007). Every week I issue four art-related recommendations to my supporters, which have been collected in *Starry Solitudes* (poetry) and *Sunny Sundays* (painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and more). For more of my works, see https://diannedurantewriter.com/books-essays .