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Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", Browne also played in public performances.
There are 27 historically significant properties in the district, most of which were built before 1850, and are residential. Notable among these is the 1805 Levi Browne House, which was the birthplace of humorist Charles Farrar Browne (1834–67), who wrote under the pen name Artemus Ward. One of the architecturally finer Federal period houses ...
Charles Browne may refer to: Charles Browne (politician) (1875–1947), American politician from New Jersey; Charles Albert Browne Jr. (1870–1947), American sugar chemist; Charles E. Browne (1816–1895), American pioneer and territorial legislator; Charles Farrar Browne (1834–1867), American humor writer
April 26 – Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward), American humorist (died 1867) May 28 – Lavilla Esther Allen, American author, poet and reader (died 1903) July 9 – Jan Neruda, Czech writer (died 1891) August 31 – Esther Pugh, American reformer, editor and publisher (died 1908) September 9 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist ...
Charles Frederick Briggs; Dylan Brody; Fredric Brown; Jennifer Brown (author) Charles Farrar Browne; John Ross Browne; S. G. Browne; Bill Bryson; Art Buchwald; Nathaniel Burbank; Robert Jones Burdette; Gelett Burgess; Jeff Burk; Bob Burns (humorist) Augusten Burroughs; Ellis Parker Butler; Pat Buttram
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Michael Farrar, a Kansas City physician whose infamous ex-wife Debora Green was convicted of murdering two of their children in a 1995 Prairie Village arson fire, died Wednesday. He was 68.
In another encounter with the American writer Charles Farrar Browne (also known as Artemius Ward), who was notorious for his racist portrayals of African Americans, Craft, "looking him straight in the eye," challenged him, and stated he should "never again write anything which shall make people believe that you are against the negro." [22]