Show 1 Marlon CnmforL F Marlon Crawford has won great popularity as a novelist Ho Is the son clan American sculptor Thomas Crawford Craw-ford and was born In Hagnl < dl Lucca Italy August Z 1854 Ho was educated partly In America at Concord N II l and Heidelberg and from 1870 to 1878 studied Sanskrit at the Unlvrritty Of Homo In 1879 ho went to India and + + t 111 ed was editor ot a dally I paper the Indian r Herald at Allahabad Upturning to America In 1881 he remained until 1883 and then went to Italy where with the ntANCIS MAHION CRAWFORD exception of occasional vlilts to IhlJ i and other countries he has since resided re-sided his home being near Sorrento Mr Crawfords writings ore chiefly lathe a la-the line of fiction though ho hu dona some work In critical philosophy and philology and has contributed sketclus of travel to periodicals His first navel Mr Isaacs made him famous In Ibo literary world and his succeeding ones which havo followed one another In rapid succession harD been eagerly sought after and widely commented upon |