John Kendrick Bangs

Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) John Kendrick Bangs Illustrated, Ill edition

John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) who also wrote under the pseudonym Anne Warrington Witherup, was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. He was Editor of a number of top American magazines such as Life, Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Young People, Literature, New Metropolitan Magazine and Puck. He also contributed articles and poems to the magazines and wrote many novels. His works include: Coffee and Repartee (1893), The Water Ghost, and Others (1894), The Idiot (1895), Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895), A House-Boat on the Styx (1895), A Rebellious Heroine (1896), The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces (1896), The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897), Paste Jewels (1897), Ghosts I Have Met, and Some Others (1898), The Enchanted Typewriter (1899), The Booming of Acre Hill (1900) and Olympian Nights (1902).