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Dallas Lore Sharp

American author (1870–1929)

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American author (1870–1929)

Field	Value
name	Dallas Lore Sharp
image	Dallas Lore Sharp resting on a rock near the summit of Mount Hood, 1912.jpg
caption	Dallas Lore Sharp resting on a rock near the summit of Mount Hood, 1912.jpg
birth_date	1870
birth_place	Haleyville, New Jersey
death_date	1929
nationality	American
occupation	professor and author
spouse	Grace Hastings
children	Waitstill Sharp, Dallas Lore Sharp II, Morrison Sharp, Huntington Sharp
alma_mater	Brown University (B.A., 1895)
Boston University School of Theology (S.T.B., 1899)

Boston University School of Theology (S.T.B., 1899) Dallas Lore Sharp (1870–1929) was an American author and university professor, born in the Haleyville section of Commercial Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

He graduated at Brown University in 1895, served as a Methodist Episcopal minister for four years, and graduated at the Boston University School of Theology in 1899. He married Grace Hastings and the couple had four sons, including Waitstill Sharp.

He was assistant librarian (1899–1902), assistant professor of English (1902–09), and thereafter professor at Boston University.

As a writer he became known through his charming magazine articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg.

Works

Wildlife Near Home (1901)
A Watcher in the Woods (1903)
Roof and Meadow (1904)
The Lay of the Land (1908) illustrated by Elizabeth Myers Snagg
Ways of the Woods (1908)
A Cure for Winter (1908)
In American Fields and Forests (1908) (with Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Bradford Torrey, Dallas Lore Sharp, Olive Thorne Miller, and John Muir)
The Spring of the Year (1909)
The Fall of the Year (1911)
The Face of the Fields (1911)
Winter (1912)
Summer (1913)
The Year Out of Doors (1914)
Beyond the Pasture Bars (1914)
Where Rolls the Oregon (1914) (revised and reprinted as Eastern Naturalist in the West: Dallas Lore Sharp 1912 by Sand Lake Press)
The Whole Year Round (1915)
The Hills of Hingham (1916)
Patrons of Democracy (1920)
The Seer of Slabsides (1921)
A January Summer (1922)
Highlands and Hollows (1923)
The Magical Chance (1923)
The Spirit of the Hive (1925)
Sanctuary! Sanctuary! (1926)
The Better Country (1928)
Romances frrm the Old Testament (1932)
Christ and His Time (1933)

References

(1899). "Catalogue".
Sharp, Dallas Lore; and Millard, Columbus Norman. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qw09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR8 ''A Watcher in the Woods''], p. viii. [[Century Company]], 1911. Accessed July 23, 2014. "Dallas Lore Sharp was born on a farm in Haleyville, New Jersey, where the pine barrens, the marshes of Maurice River, and the great river swamps stretched out around him."
[https://books.google.com/books?id=qw09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR8 Sharp, Dallas Lore. ''A Watcher in the Woods'', New York. The Century Co., 1903]
"Roof and meadow".
"Atlantic monthly c.1 v.101 Jan-Jun 1908.".

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