Great Britain has Beatrix Potter's immortal Peter Rabbit; America possesses the no less immortal Uncle Wiggily.
Howard Roger Garis was born 25 April 1873 in Binghamton, New York, the son of Simeon H. and Ellen Kimball Garis. His father was a railroad telegrapher, whose frequent moves from station to station often made education for the young Garis quite difficult. He got a job at age sixteen in Newark, New Jersey, at the Erie Lackawanna Railroad baggage office. There, after an adolescent love affair had gone sour, he wrote "A World Without Women," his first novel. Though this work was (happily) refused at the publishers, Garis continued at the typewriter, turning out poems, stories, and two more novels. Arthur's Magazine ultimately accepted a poem, the payment for which was a magazine subscription. Other short stories and poems published locally led to a position as reporter on the staff of the Newark [New Jersey] Evening News. For twelve years he worked tirelessly at the Evening News during the day, writing his juvenile adventures in the evening.
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