Introduction

Biography

Meredith was the son of Ed­ward Will­is Ni­chol­son and Em­i­ly Me­re­dith Ni­chol­son. He mar­ried twice: to Eu­ge­nie Cle­men­tine Kountze and Do­ro­thy Wolfe Lan­non.

He be­gan a news­pa­per ca­reer in 1884 at the In­di­an­apo­lis Sen­ti­nel. He moved to the Ind­i­an­a­po­lis News the fol­low­ing year, stay­ing there un­til 1897.

In 1928, Ni­chol­son en­tered po­li­tics, and served two years as ci­ty coun­cil­man in In­di­an­apo­lis. He rose through the ranks of the De­mo­cra­tic par­ty, and served as en­voy to Par­a­guay, Ven­e­zue­la, and Ni­ca­ra­gua.

Works

Nicholson wrote Short Flights in 1891, and con­tin­ued to pub­lish ex­ten­sive­ly, both po­et­ry and prose, un­til 1928.

Three of his books were na­tion­al best sell­ers: The House of a Thou­sand Can­dles (num­ber 4 in 1906), The Port of Miss­ing Men (num­ber 3 in 1907), and A Hoo­sier Chro­ni­cle (num­ber 5 in 1912).