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May 27, 1862 — Jan 21, 1922· 59 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · GENERAL

John Kendrick Bangs

Also known as: Kendrick John Bangs, J.K. B.

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John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American writer, humorist, editor and satirist.

Yonkers, United States
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CHARON, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and an he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly to ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up.

— from A House-Boat on the Styx, 1895

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A House-Boat on the Styx

1895

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The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.

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The Enchanted Typewriter

1899

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The Water Ghost and Others

1894

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