Meredith Nicholson

This article is about the author. For the cinematographer, see Meredith Merle Nicholson.

Meredith Nicholson
Born	(1866-12-09)December 9, 1866 Crawfordsville, Indiana
Died	Indianapolis, Indiana

Meredith Nicholson (9 December 1866 – 22 December 1947) was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a politician, and a diplomat.

Biography

Nicholson was born on December 9, 1866, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, to Edward Willis Nicholson and the former Emily Meredith. Largely self-taught, Nicholson began a newspaper career in 1884 at the Indianapolis Sentinel. He moved to the Indianapolis News the following year, where he remained until 1897.

He wrote Short Flights in 1891, and continued to publish extensively, both poetry and prose until 1928. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Nicholson, along with Booth Tarkington, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Three of his books from that era were national bestsellers:

• The House of a Thousand Candles (#4 in 1906)
• The Port of Missing Men (#3 in 1907)
• A Hoosier Chronicle (#5 in 1912)

In 1928, Nicholson entered Democratic party politics, and served for two years as a city councilman in Indianapolis. He rose through the ranks of the Democratic party and was rewarded with appointments as Envoy to Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Nicholson was married firstly to Eugenie Clementine Kountze, daughter of Herman Kountze, and secondly to Dorothy Wolfe Lannon, whom he later divorced.

Nicholson died on December 22, 1947, in Indianapolis, aged 81, and is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery. And Meredith Nicholson Jr. was born about 1903 and died at the age 23 being baptized.

External links

• Works by Meredith Nicholson at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Meredith Nicholson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Meredith Nicholson at Unz.org
• Meredith Nicholson at the Internet Movie Database
• Meredith Nicholson at Find a Grave

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Post Wheeler	United States Minister to Paraguay 30 October 1933–3 February 1935	Succeeded by Findley B. Howard
Preceded by George R. Summerlin	United States Minister to Venezuela April 22, 1935–April 14, 1938	Succeeded by Antonio C. Gonzalez
Preceded by Boaz Long	United States Minister to Nicaragua June 9, 1938–February 27, 1941	Succeeded by Pierre de Lagarde Boal