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George Ade

Last Updated: 10 Feb, 2023 | Views: 335

Age: 78

Profession: Writer

Other Profession(s): Playwright

Famous For: The College Widow, The County Chairman

Higher Education: Graduated

George Ade Religion, Birthday, Age

Date of Birth

09 Feb, 1866 (78 Years 03 Months 6 Days)

Birth Country

United States

Birth State/Province

Indiana

Birth District

Kentland

Birth Sign

Aquarius

Nationalities

American

Died on

16 May, 1944

George Ade Early life, Education, Career, Awards, Achievements, Controversy, Unknown Facts

About (Profile/Biography):
George Ade, one of the popular American writers, was born on February 9, 1866. Besides being a syndicated newspaper columnist, he was also a playwright of national renown, and he was a syndicated newspaper columnist. It was around the turn of the 20th century that he began writing a column called "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", in which he used street language and slang to describe the daily lives of Chicagoland. Also, he wrote a column called "Fables in Slang", a humorous piece that featured vernacular speech and liberal use of capitalization in the dialogue of the characters.
Career:
1887: His journalism career began in 1887, after he graduated from Purdue University and worked for the Lafayette Morning News and later the Lafayette Call as a reporter and telegraph editor.
A trademark of Ade's has been the ability to turn local human-interest stories into humorous satire, which he developed while working for the Chicago Record.
1897: The Chicago Record published Ade's first set of fables in slang in 1897, shortly after he had introduced them.
1900: As his newspaper columns began to be syndicated in 1900, Ade began to write plays in addition to his newspaper columns.
1963: George Ade wrote the play The Sultan of Sulu, which was produced on the Broadway stage, a comic opera about the efforts of the American military to assimilate the natives of the Philippines into American culture through military conquest.
As early as the early 1900s, Ade was one of the most successful writers in Chicago, and his writing had made him wealthy, allowing him to retire to a more leisurely life in the countryside.
Death:
A heart attack caused Ade to drop into a coma, and he died at the age of seventy-eight on May 16, 1944, in Brook, Indiana, from a heart attack. There is a Fairlawn Cemetery located in Kentland, in the Iroquois Township, Newton County, Indiana, in which his remains are interred.