White, Stuart Edward

Born into a family of a timber merchant, grew up in a forest, in camps, on a river with raftsmen; worked at gold mines. In 1893 he graduated from the University, in 1903 received his doctorate in Michigan. A series of White's journeys through the Hudson Bay began in the 1900s, then in the Annivier Mountains in 1904, the first expedition to Africa in 1911, and the second in 1926. During World War I served in field artillery.

White's adventure novels build on the vast material of his travels. “The Westerners”, 1901, and “The Claim Jumpers”, 1901, were written in gold mines, “The blazed Trail”, 1902 - in the camp of the smelters, “The Pass”, 1906 - in the Annivier Mountains, “Secret Harbon”, 1925 - aboard a yacht cruising between British Columbia and Alaska , Lions in the Path, 1926 - in the huts of Central Africa . His novels are imbued with a kind of "geographical romance."

The largest historical novels are the California series: Cold, 1913, The Gray Dawn, 1915, and The Rose Dawn, 1920. Long Rifle, 1932, and Ranchero, 1933, were published. , the story of the adventures of a descendant of pioneers and heroes of liberation wars.

In an idealized historical past, Stuart glorifies America’s “heroic youth”, contrasting it with modern American reality. Geographical and historical romance is the idealization of the imperialist tendencies of American capitalism at the beginning of the 20th century.

• White // Literary Encyclopedia : 11 vol.: Vol. 11 / Ch. ed. Lunacharsky A.V .; Scientific Secretary Mikhailova E. N. - M .: Khudozh. lit., 1939. - St. 481-482. - 824 stb. : ill.