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Johnson Jones Hooper (June 9, 1815 – June 7, 1862) was an American humorist.〔Treadaway, James L. (1983). "Johnson Jones Hooper and the American Picaresque," ''Thalia'' 6, pp. 33-42.〕 ==Biography== Hooper was born in Wilmington, North Carolina as the youngest of three sons of Archibald Maclaine Hooper and Charlotte de Bernier Hooper.〔Tate, Adam L. (2005). ''Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861''. University of Missouri Press, p. 262.〕 He moved to Dadeville, Alabama in 1835 where he edited a newspaper and practiced law. All told, he founded or edited six different publications during his career. His first published work, in 1843, was "Taking the Census in Alabama", drawn from his own experiences as a census taker in Tallapoosa County.〔Tate (2005), p. 263.〕 In 1844 he began publishing short stories about the rascally Simon Suggs, which he collected and published in 1845 as the ''Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs''; broadly, cruelly, and uncouthly humorous, yet one of the raciest books of its time, descriptive of a gambling sharp of the Southwest in the "flush times."〔Rachal, John (1976). "Language and Comic Motifs in Johnson Jones Hooper's Simon Suggs" ''Alabama Historical Quarterly'' 38, pp. 93-100.〕 The work made him nationally known, and may have inspired one or more characters of Mark Twain's. His ''Widow Rugby's Husband and Other Tales of Alabama'' (1851) was less successful.〔White, Cynthia Quinn (2010). ("Johnson Jones Hooper," ) ''The Encyclopedia of Alabama''.〕 Intensely political, he was appointed secretary of the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861.〔Somers, Paul, Jr. (1984). ''Johnson J. Hooper''. Boston: Twayne Publishers.〕 He moved with the Confederate government to Richmond, where he died from the effects of tuberculosis in 1862 (not 1861, as indicated on the state historical marker) and was buried in that city's Shockoe Hill Cemetery. His grave was unmarked until 1950, when anonymous donors erected the current granite stone. He married Mary Mildred Brantley in 1845. They had two sons, William and Adolphus.〔Hoole, W. Stanley (1952). ''(Alias Simon Suggs: The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper )''. University of Alabama Press, p. 41.〕 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「Johnson J. Hooper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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