Wister, Owen (1860-1938), was an American novelist. He became noted for The Virginian (1902) and other stories of Western life as seen by a Philadelphian and Harvard graduate. Wister wrote biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, and Wister’s friend Theodore Roosevelt. Other works include Red Men and White (1896), Philosophy 4 (1903), and Lady Baltimore (1906).
Wister was born on July 14, 1860, in Philadelphia. He died on July 21, 1938.
