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Owen Johnson
(1878 - 1952)
Owen McMahon Johnson was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover. The Lawrenceville Stories (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, The Hummingbird), set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling’s Stalky and Co. A 1987 PBS mini-series was based on them.
Bibliography
The Children’s Hour Volume 10 (1953)
An anthology of stories about school and sports.
Read online at archive.org.
The Humming Bird (1910)
A collection of stories, mainly about baseball. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
F. R. Gruger
The Lawrenceville Stories (1967)
An omnibus of boys boarding school stories containing The Prodigious Hickey, The Varmint, and The Tennessee Shad.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
F. R. Gruger
Frederic Dorr Steele
The Prodigious Hickey (1909)
The first of the boarding school stories set at Lawrenceville in the era after the end of caning, when “between masters and students there was an armed and exceedingly wary neutrality.” Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Henry Raleigh
Frederic Dorr Steele
Skippy Bedelle (1922)
Further adventures of the Lawrenceville School inmates. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Fuhr
Stover at Yale (1912)
Having graduated Lawrenceville School, Dink Stover matriculates at Yale. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Covey
F. R. Gruger
The Tennessee Shad (1911)
The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
F. R. Gruger
The Varmint (1910)
Adventures at a boys’ boarding school - more football than baseball. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
F. R. Gruger