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Ben Hur Lampman (August 12,〔Passport Applications, January 2, 1906-March 31, 1925; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1490, 2740 rolls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ben_hur_lampman_passport_application_1922.jpg); General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59; National Archives, Washington, D.C.〕 1886 – January 24, 1954) was a U.S. newspaper editor, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He was a longtime editor at ''The Oregonian'' in Portland, Oregon, and he served as Poet Laureate of Oregon from 1951 until his death.〔(Oregon State Poet Laureate ) from the Library of Congress website〕 ==Career== Lampman's first job as a writer was with the local newspaper of Gold Hill, Oregon. In 1916, he moved to Portland to become a reporter for ''The Oregonian''. In 1920 he published an account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre. In 1921 he was appointed an editor of the editorial page. He also wrote nature essays in ''The Oregonian''. His stories and essays also appeared in national magazines such as the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Some of his essays about life in Portland were collected in his 1942 book ''At the End of the Car Line''. In 1943 he won an O. Henry Award for his short story "Blinker Was a Good Dog"〔(O. Henry Award Winners 1919-2000 ) from the Random House website〕 which originally appeared in the ''Atlantic Monthly''. Some of his papers and manuscripts are now in the collection of the library of the University of Oregon. Others reside at Lewis and Clark College and the Oregon Historical Society. The Lewis and Clark Collection also contains, on loan, from the family of Ben's long-time friend, Elizabeth Salway Ryan, Ben's typewriter, his trademark glasses, a complete set of proofs of all 14 of his books and many more items. Lampman also wrote a column in the ''Oregonian'' entitled "Where to Bury A Dog" which is frequently cited in pet memorials. It was included in ''How Could I Be Forgetting'', a 1926 compilation of the author's essays and poems.〔(US Catalog of Copyright Entries (Renewals) Books from 1926 (titles starting with H, I & J) ) from ibiblio〕 In the 1980s. Elizabeth Salway Ryan wrote a biography, The Magic of Ben Hur Lampman. The typescript was published in a very limited edition by Grandson Mark Anders Kronquist and Daughter Sally Ryan Tomlinson. Copies of the first edition typescript are in the collections of the University of Oregon, The Lake Oswego Public Library, the Library of Congress and the Oregon Historical Society. In 2011, as a part of the celebration, Lewis and Clark College printed several hundred copies of the typescript. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Hur Lampman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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