Wilbur Daniel Steele
Wilbur Daniel Steele was a U.S. author and playwright. He has been called "America's recognised master of the popular short story" between World War I and the Great Depression.
His short stories are set in American locations and are often highly dramatic. Collections of his stories include The Man Who Saw through Heaven, Best Stories, and Full Cargo. He also wrote novels, including Taboo, That Girl from Memphis, and Their Town. His second wife was actress Norma Mitchell, with whom he co-wrote the play The Post Road.
Works
Novels
Storm Isles of the Blest Taboo Meat Republished as The Third Generation Undertow Sound of Rowlocks That Girl from Memphis Diamond Wedding Their Town- ''The Way to the Gold''
Short story collections
Land's End and Other Stories The Shame Dance and Other Stories Urkey Island The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories Tower of Sand and Other Stories The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele- ''Full Cargo: More Stories''
Plays
Contemporaries, produced 1915.Not Smart, produced 1916.The Giants' Stair, produced 1924.The Terrible Woman and Other One Act Plays, 1925. Also includes Not Smart, Ropes.Any Woman, produced in August 1934 for one-week run.Post Road, produced 1934; printed 1935.How Beautiful with Shoes, produced 1935. From the story by Steele.Luck, in William Kozlenko One Hundred Nonroyalty Plays, 1941.Short stories
| Title | Publication | Collected in |
| "On the Ebb Tide" | Success | - |
| "Gloomy on the Gridiron" | Success | - |
| "The Insurrecto" | The National Magazine | - |
| "Pickled Sunshine" | The National Magazine | - |
| "The Admirable Admirals" | Success | - |
| "The Old Man's Brother" | The Cavalier | - |
| "White Horse Winter" | The Atlantic | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "Thumbs Down" | Harper's Weekly | - |
| "The Price of Fish" | Metropolitan Magazine | - |
| "An Officer Born" | The American Magazine | - |
| "The Islanders" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "The Stone Man" | Adventure | - |
| "Orpheus O'Grady" | Adventure | - |
| "The Handkerchief Lady's Girl" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Captain Ulysses G. Dadd, Retired" | Scribner's Magazine | - |
| "The Wickedness of Father Veiera" | The Atlantic | - |
| "The Younger Twin" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Pa-Jim" | Scribner's Magazine | - |
| "The Miracle" | The Masses | - |
| "The Yellow Cat" | Harper's Magazine | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "On Moon Hill" | The Century Magazine | - |
| "A Matter of Education" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "The Real Thing" | The Century Magazine | - |
| "A Modern Flying Dutchman" | Adventure | - |
| "'Romance'" | The Atlantic | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "Heritage" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Free Agent" | Collier's | - |
| "The Killer's Son" | Harper's Magazine | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "Before the Mast | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Land's End" | Collier's | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "Down on Their Knees" | Harper's Magazine | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "The Last Fletcher" | Good Housekeeping | - |
| "An Escape from Freedom" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "A Devil of a Fellow" | The Seven Arts | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "White Hands" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "The Killers of Provincetown" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Mr. Timmons Tackles Life" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Ching, Ching, Chinaman" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "The Half Ghost" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Free" | The Century Magazine | - |
| "Ked's Hand" | Harper's Magazine | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "A Point of Honor" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "The Woman at Seven Brothers" | Harper's Magazine | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "The White Man" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "You're Right, At That" | Collier's | - |
| "The Wages of Sin" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "Always Summer" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "Eternal Youth" | Scribner's | - |
| "The Dark Hour" | The Atlantic | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "A Man's a Fool" | Metropolitan Magazine | Land's End and Other Stories |
| "Mr. Scattergood and the Other World" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "The Perfect Face" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "A Taste of the Old Boy" | Collier's | - |
| "For Where Is Your Fortune Now?" | Pictorial Review | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "The Heart of a Woman" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Goodfellow" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "'For They Know Not What They Do'" | Pictorial Review | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "Accomplice After the Fact" | Good Housekeeping | - |
| "Luck" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "'La Guiablesse'" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "Clay and Cloven Hoof" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Out of Exile" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "Both Judge and Jury" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "God's Mercy" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "At Two-in-the-Bush" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "Footfalls" | Pictorial Review | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "The Shame Dance" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "Fouled Anchor" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "'Toinette of Maisonnoir" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "A Life" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "The Marriage in Kairwan" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "'He That Hideth His Secret'" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "The Mad" | Pictorial Review | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "From the Other Side of the South" | Pictorial Review | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "The Anglo-Saxon" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "The Man Who Sat" | Pictorial Review | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "The First Born" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "'Arab Stuff'" | Harper's Magazine | The Shame Dance and Other Stories |
| "Crocuses" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "Tower of Sand" | Pictorial Review | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "Ginger Beer" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "What Do You Mean—Americans?" | Pictorial Review | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Lost at Sea" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "Marriage" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "The Thinker" | Pictorial Review | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Sauce for the Goose" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Six Dollars" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "When Hell Froze" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "The Man Who Saw Through Heaven" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Blue Murder" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Out of the Wind" | Pictorial Review | Urkey Island |
| "Brother's Keeper" | Harper's Magazine | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "Beauty" | Good Housekeeping ) | - |
| "The Gray Goose" | Harper's Magazine | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "Now I Lay Me" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Flesh" | Nash's-Pall Mall | - |
| "Bubbles" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum" | Pictorial Review | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Autumn Bloom" | Pictorial Review | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "A Drink of Water" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Sailor! Sailor!" | Pictorial Review | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "New Deal" | Scribner's Magazine | - |
| "Sooth" | Harper's Magazine | The Man Who Saw Through Heaven and Other Stories |
| "Speed" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "An American Comedy" | Pictorial Review | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "Mary Drake and Will Todd" | Pictorial Review | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "Lightning" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Never Anything That Fades" | Harper's Magazine | Tower of Sand and Other Stories |
| "'Satan Am a Snake'" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Winter Wheat" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "From One Generation to Another" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "The Silver Sword" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Survivor" | Pictorial Review | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "Pioneers" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Quicksilver" | Harper's Magazine | - |
| "Surprize" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Conjuh" | Pictorial Review | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "In the Shade of the Tree" | Harper's Magazine | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "'Ki'" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Wife of a Viking" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "'Can't Cross Jordan By Myself'" | Pictorial Review | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "Diamond Wedding" | Woman's Home Companion | - |
| "Green Vigil" | Ladies' Home Journal | - |
| "Light" | Ladies' Home Journal | - |
| "The Hills of Heaven" | Good Housekeeping | - |
| "Renegade" | Ladies' Home Journal | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "The Body of the Crime" | Ladies' Home Journal | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "Daughter of the Soil" | Pictorial Review | - |
| "Man Without a God" aka "Man and Boy" | Ladies' Home Journal | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "Conscience" aka "Two Seconds" | Pictorial Review | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "Twenty-Seven Minutes" | Ladies' Home Journal | - |
| "By Appointment" | The Saturday Evening Post | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "How Beautiful With Shoes" | Harper's Magazine | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "Where There's Smoke" | Ladies' Home Journal | - |
| "Will and Bill" | Ladies' Home Journal | - |
| "Somebody" | Harper's Bazaar | - |
| "Landfall" | Liberty | - |
| "Son of His Father" | The Saturday Evening Post | - |
| "The Second Mrs. Brown" | Collier's | - |
| "Due North" | Cosmopolitan | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "The Black Road" | Collier's | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "Baptism" | Good Housekeeping | - |
| "Isles of Spice and Lilies" | The Atlantic | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "Through Road" | Collier's | - |
| "A Life Is So Little" | Good Housekeeping | - |
| "Prescription for Success" | Woman's Home Companion | - |
| "Her Hand in Marriage" | Cosmopolitan | - |
| "The Crowning Divorce" | Cosmopolitan | - |
| "The Crystal-Gazer's Daughter" | Good Housekeeping | - |
| "The Boston Story" | Cosmopolitan | - |
| "Deep Waters" | Life Story | - |
| "A Bath in the Sea" | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele | The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele |
| "The Untamed" | Argosy | - |
| "Dust to Dust" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | - |
| "A Way With Women" aka "The Lady-Killer" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Full Cargo: More Stories |
| "The Little Wheel" | Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine | - |
| "Man Trap" | Argosy | - |
| "The Bogeyman" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | - |