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George Ade<\/b> (February 9, 1866 \u2013 May 16, 1944) was born in Kentland, Indiana. Ade was a newspaper columnist, writer and playwright.<\/p>\n
Ade wrote the Stories of the Streets and of the Town <\/em>column for the Chicago Record.<\/em>\u00a0 The column used everyday language as it described life in Chicago.<\/p>\n He is perhaps best known for his collection of stories, Fables in Slang.\u00a0 <\/em>The book, published in 1899,<\/em> was a best-seller.<\/p>\n In 1902 he produced his first play for the Broadway stage. The Sultan of Sulu <\/em>was a comic opera about the American military endeavors to assimilate natives of the Philippines into American culture.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks. ~\u00a0Knocking the Neighbors<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by George Ade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n George Ade (February 9, 1866 \u2013 May 16, 1944) was born in Kentland, Indiana. Ade was a newspaper columnist, writer and playwright.\u00a0<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[805,494,493],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-information","tag-bio1","tag-george-ade","tag-knocking-the-neighbors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t
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