Francis Marion Crawford
Francis Marion Crawford ( born August 2, 1854 in Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, † April 9, 1909 in Sorrento, Campania) was an American writer.
Biography
The son of the sculptor Thomas Crawford and nephew of the poet Julia Ward Howe received his education first in Rome and then moved to the St. Paul 's School in Concord. Later he studied at Cambridge University and at the Technical University in Karlsruhe, at the Ruprecht- Karls- University of Heidelberg and at the University of Halle. In Karlsruhe, he became in 1875 a member of the Corps Bavaria. In 1879 he traveled to India, where he studied Sanskrit and was editor of the Allahabad Indian Herald.
After his return to the United States he continued for one year continued his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University and was also a contributor to various magazines.
His literary debut came in 1882 with the novel Mr. Isaacs, where he joined the Anglo-Indian life with a touch of oriental secrets brilliantly. This book had immediate success and was continued in 1883 by the publication of the novel Dr. Claudius. After a brief stay in New York City in 1883, he returned to Italy and took up permanent residence there. This meant that he stood apart from the then contemporary American literature.
He has published annually a number of successful novels such as A Roman Singer (1884 Bernhard Tauchnitz, No 2254 of " Collection of British Authors ", Leipzig), An American Politician (1884 ), To Leeward (1884), Zoroaster (1885 ), A Tale of a Lonely Parish ( 1886), Marzio 's Crucifix (1887 ), Saracinesca (1887 ), Paul Patoff (1887 ), With the Immortals (1888 ), Reaching Stein ( 1889), Sant Ilario (1889 ), A Cigarette- makers Romance ( 1890), Khaled (1891 ), The Witch of Prague (1891 ), The Three Fates (1892 ), The Children of the King ( 1892), Don Orsino (1892 ), Marion Darche (1893 ), Pietro Ghisleri (1893 ), Katharine Lauderdale ( 1894), Love in Idleness (1894 ), The Ralston (1894 ), Casa Braccio (1895 ), Adam Johnston's Son (1895 ), Taquisara (1896 ), A Rose of Yesterday (1897 ), Corleone (1897 ), Via Crucis (1899), In the Palace of the King (1900), Marietta (1901 ), Cecilia ( 1902), Whosoever Shall Offend (1904 ), Soprano ( 1905), A Lady of Rome ( 1906) and The White Sister ( 1909).
He also wrote some historical works such as Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South ( 1900) and Gleanings from Venetian History ( 1905). In these he combined his deep knowledge of local Italian history with the talent of a novelist to show the effects.
However, its importance in the literature is based on his novels. He was a gifted storyteller who, wide recognition received by his novels, which were full of historic vitality and dramatic characterization with readers who rejected the realism of problems or the eccentricity of subjective analysis. He succeeded in working up a romantic content in an attractive way, with an offset of action in picturesque environments, where he satisfied the reader's intelligence by a style that looked both strictly forward and was complicated. Among his most important novels of this type probably heard Saracinesca.
In addition to the adaptation of A Cigarette- makers romance into a drama, he wrote with Francesca da Rimini, a second theater piece with Sarah Bernhardt in Paris had its world premiere in 1902 and was later translated by Marcel Schwob in the French language.
Many of his works as Mr. Isaacs, The White Sister, In the Palace of the King and Whosoever Shall Offend were filmed for the cinema.