Meredith M. Nicholson

Emerging from Crawfordsville, Indiana, and largely self-taught, he began his newspaper career at the Indianapolis Sentinel in 1884 before joining the Indianapolis News, where he stayed until 1897. His novels and poetry achieved national bestseller status-The House of a Thousand Candles (#4 in 1906), The Port of Missing Men (#3 in 1907) and A Hoosier Chronicle (#5 in 1912)-and were quickly turned i… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources