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Maurice Francis Egan (May 24, 1852 – January 15, 1924) was an American writer and diplomat. He was a prolific writer and had a long and successful career as a Catholic journalist, literary critic, and novelist. He was a professor of English at two universities, and served as United States Ambassador to Denmark. == Biography == Maurice Francis Egan's father was an immigrant from County Tipperary, Ireland who became a successful industrialist. His mother was from Philadelphia. Egan was born in Philadelphia in 1852. He received his secondary education from Brothers of the Christian Schools (FSC) at the newly opened LaSalle College. He did graduate work in journalism at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.〔〔 Egan returned to Philadelphia in 1877. His father urged him to pursue a career in law, but Egan instead began to contribute to ''The Saturday Evening Post'' magazine. His first novel ''That Girl of Mine'', an implausible romance set in Washington, D.C. society, was published in 1877. Egan wrote the novel in two weeks for a pulp romance series. It was successful, and Egan wrote a sequel titled ''That Lover of Mine'' for the same series in 1877.〔 Egan moved to New York in 1878. He used the network of Catholic publications to further his career, first becoming an editor at the Catholic journal ''Magee's Weekly''. He then moved to the ''Illustrated Catholic American'', and later to P. V. Hickey's ''Catholic Review''. He became associate editor of the ''Freeman's Journal'' in 1881. He wrote essays, poems, reviews, and short fiction throughout the 1880s. Egan had become a respected Catholic writer by the 1890s. The 1890s was his most productive decade as a writer.〔 Egan was professor of English at the University of Notre Dame from 1888 to 1896. He was professor of English at The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. from 1896 to 1907.〔〔 He was an editor of the landmark ten volume ''Irish Literature'' (1904). His essay on "Irish Novels" was included in the book.〔 He was a friend of US President Theodore Roosevelt, and introduced him to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch.〔 Egan resigned his professorship and left academic life when President Roosevelt appointed him United States Ambassador to Denmark.〔〔 His appointment was a reward for his services as an unofficial contact with the hierarchy of the Catholic Church about Church-State problems in the Philippines and other countries.〔Shannon, William V., 1989, ''The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait'', ISBN 0-87023-689-X, p. 328.〕 He continued in this post under Presidents William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. He facilitated the purchase of the Danish West Indies (renamed the United States Virgin Islands) in 1917. He resigned in 1918 because of ill-health. He was awarded the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, an award for an outstanding Catholic, in 1910. His autobiography ''Recollections of a Happy Life'' was published in 1924. He died in New York on January 15, 1924. 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「Maurice Francis Egan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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