George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was born in Kentland, Indiana. Ade was a newspaper columnist, writer and playwright.
Ade wrote the Stories of the Streets and of the Town column for the Chicago Record. The column used everyday language as it described life in Chicago.
He is perhaps best known for his collection of stories, Fables in Slang. The book, published in 1899, was a best-seller.
In 1902 he produced his first play for the Broadway stage. The Sultan of Sulu was a comic opera about the American military endeavors to assimilate natives of the Philippines into American culture.
Ade’s work was most popular in the 1910s and 1920s. Ade’s writing was part of the Golden Age of Indiana Literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks. ~ Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade
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