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Charles Henry Webb (January 24, 1834, Rouse's Point, New York – May 24, 1905) was an American poet, author and journalist. He was particularly known for his parodies and humorous writings. ==Biography== Webb was born at Rouse's Point, New York in 1834. Later, he spent three years at sea, and was then taken on by ''The New York Times''.〔(Webb, Charles Henry (John Paul) (1834-) ) from The vault at Pfaffs〕 In April 1862, he moved to San Francisco, California and became literary editor of the ''San Francisco Bulletin'' before becoming the highest paid contributor to ''The Golden Era'' under pen names like "Inigo" and "John Paul".〔Nissen, Axel. ''Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper''. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000: 76. ISBN 1-57806-253-5〕 In his regular column for the ''Era'' in December 1863, he announced that he and Bret Harte "laid our heads together over a Mint Julep... () determined to start a paper" of their own.〔Tarnoff, Ben. ''The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature''. New York: The Penguin Press, 2014: 65. ISBN 978-1-59420-473-9〕 The first issue of this project, ''The Californian'', was released in May 1864.〔Nissen, Axel. ''Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper''. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000: 25. ISBN 1-57806-253-5〕 Webb's irreverent tone and burlesques of California life and Californians, however, were not successful and in 1866 he left ''The Californian'' and returned to the East Coast.〔Caron, James E. ''Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter''. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008: 218. ISBN 978-0-8262-1802-5〕 When his friend Mark Twain had difficulty finding a publisher for his first collection of sketches, Webb offered to take on the project himself. Webb served as both editor and publisher for ''The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches'' When it was released under the American News Company imprint in 1867, Twain reported to a newspaper, "() has gotten it up in excellent style, and has done everything to suit his own taste, which is excellent. I have made no suggestions."〔Messent, Peter. ''The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001: 10. ISBN 0-8122-3622-X〕 In 1867, Webb wrote ''St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga'', a parody of the novel ''St. Elmo'' by Augusta Evans Wilson which had sold over a million copies within four months of its publication the year before.〔Harris, Susan K. ''Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretative Strategies''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990: 60. ISBN 0-521-38288-2〕 In the 1890s, Webb spent his summers in Nantucket at 77 Main Street, known as the Francis Macy House.〔Gambee, Robert. ''Nantucket Impressions''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001: 231. ISBN 0393-01010-4〕 Webb died in New York on May 24, 1905. 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「Charles Henry Webb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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