The Magical Chance

Famous American essays -- 20th century

Contents    
The magical chance -- The radium of romance -- The hunt for "copy" -- The duty to dig -- The man and the book -- A January summer -- After the loggers -- Woodchuck Lodge and literature.

Dallas Lore Sharp (1870–1929) was an American author and university professor, born in the Haleyville section of Commercial Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

He was assistant librarian (1899–1902), assistant professor of English (1902–09), and thereafter professor at Boston University.

As a writer he became known through his charming magazine articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg.