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Samuel Arthur Derieux (1881–1922) was an American writer, known especially for short stories, set in the South, about dogs, hunting, or both. He was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1881. His undergraduate education was in the South, at Wofford College from 1897 to '99, and at Richmond College (now the University of Richmond), where he received his B.A. in 1904. He spent two years of graduate work at Johns Hopkins, and received his M.A. at University of Chicago in 1910.〔Jacob F. Rivers, (''Cultural values in the Southern sporting narrative'' ), pp. 139-142〕 He worked as an assistant professor of English at Richmond (1910-'11), Missouri State Normal School ('11-'13), and Wake Forest ('15-'17).〔 Derieux had already published a few stories, and in 1917 he joined the editorial staff in the New York offices of The American Magazine,〔("Samuel A. Derieux" ), ''New York Times'', February 28, 1922,〕 where he then published one in each of the next two years, and two to six a year thereafter. He was among the winners of an O. Henry memorial award in the awards' first year, and was the first author to accumulate three of the awards ('19, '21, and—posthumously -- '22). He died in Manhattan of appendicitis at the age of 41 on February 25, 1922.〔 == A Boy and His Dog == In 1946, Derieux received posthumous story credit for the short film ''A Boy and His Dog''. (The film's 6 characters correspond closely to the most important of those of his O. Henry-winning 1918 story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", including the subtle point that the crucial character Squire Kirby is (once) addressed as "Jim Kirby", and (once) referred to as "Squire Jim Kirby", in the story, which corresponds to the film cast's character being specified as "Squire ''Jim'' Kirby". The story parallels in essentials the (widely circulated) plot summary for ''A Boy and His Dog'' that is attributed to David Glagovsky by the Internet Movie Database.〔(Plot Summary for A Boy and His Dog (1946) )〕 While they agree in starting the action on Friday, the film's summary is more detailed in specifying Monday as the day of the trial; the story simply says "Then one afternoon..." (not "the next day"), following a Saturday of hunting by an unknown interval, and places the trial on the day following the consequently unspecified afternoon. 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「Samuel A. Derieux」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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