Owen Johnson (writer)

Owen McMahon Johnson (August 27, 1878 – January 27, 1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover.

The "Lawrenceville Stories" (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, The Hummingbird), set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling's Stalky & Co. A 1950 film, The Happy Years, and a 1987 PBS mini-series, The Lawrenceville Stories, were based on them.

[1] He attended Yale University, as a member of the Class of 1900,[2] graduating in 1901, marrying Mary Galt Stockly and moving to Paris, where he did his initial writing.

[1] Several films are based upon Johnson novels, including The Salamander (1916) produced by B. S. Moss, The Varmint (1917), Virtuous Wives (1918), The Woman Gives (1920), The Enemy Sex (1924) (based on The Salamander), Children of Divorce (1927), and The Happy Years (1950) starring Dean Stockwell and Leo G. Carroll.

The series followed the adventures of school prankster Hickey (Zach Galligan) and his rival, The Tennessee Shad (Nicholas Rowe).

Owen Johnson.