![]() ![]() Henry Award for his short story “Blinker Was a Good Dog,” published in the Atlantic. He also contributed essays and stories to the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, and other magazines. In 1916, he moved to Portland to work for the Oregonian, where he was a reporter and later an editorial writer and columnist. He also spent as much time as he could fishing the Rogue River. In 1912, Lampman moved to Gold Hill, where he edited the weekly Gold Hill News. ![]() Lampman’s first book, a compilation of poems and newspaper editorials, carries this dedication: “To Lena, who is very patient with me, but holds that the kitchen is not the place to clean fish.” He married Lena McEwen Sheldon, who had moved from New York to North Dakota to teach school. He began his journalism career at age nineteen, when he established and edited the Arena, a county newspaper in Michigan City, North Dakota. ![]() Piper called Lampman the most versatile writer he knew, a "reporter, commentator, storyteller, naturalist, historian and poet." Lampman's “ear for the vibrant, homely phrase," Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote, "makes him the best teller of the colloquial tale since Ring Lardner.”īorn in Barron, Wisconsin, Lampman grew up in tiny Neche, North Dakota, where his father edited the local newspaper. His prolific writing, however, ranged beyond daily journalism into magazine fiction, poetry, a novel, and several nonfiction books. Ben Hur Lampman, one of Oregon’s most popular writers in the first half of the twentieth century, was a longtime columnist for the Oregonian. ![]()
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