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(1836-1902) Short story writer. Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York. He worked in California as a miner, school teacher, express messenger, printer, and journalist. His story, “The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches” (1870), was published in the “Overland Monthly” and brought him instant and wide fame. He was thereafter requested to contribute poems and articles to a number of publications. His stories of the American west were much in demand in the eastern United States. In 1871 he moved to New York. He lived at 487 Hudson Street, Greenwich Village, and later at 16 5th Avenue and 713 Broadway in Manhattan, New York. He later moved to Boston.
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Bret Harte
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