Edgar Wilson Nye was Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (August 25, – February 22, ) was an American humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang.
This ebook presents a collection Bill Nye’s humor finds an audience: Newspaper with an “absurd name” credited. Edgar Wilson “Bill Nye” () was editor of the Boomerang for two short years and might have continued longer had it not been for a nearly fatal bout with spinal meningitis.
BIOGRAPHICAL. Edgar Wilson Nye was Biography: Nye was born in Shirley, Maine. He moved with his parents to Wisconsin in , settling on a farm near River Falls. His schooling was intermittent; he studied for a time in an academy in River Falls, later read law in Chippewa Falls, and shortly before leaving the state was unsuccessful with a short-lived newspaper venture in.
Bill Nye, more formally Edgar Wilson Nye's place in American literature belongs among that brilliant and distinctive group of the middle and later nineteenth century, represented chiefly by Mark Twain and Artemus Ward, who first made American humor a distinct and truly national branch of literature.
Comic History of England As a writer and humorist of the late 19th century, Nye, with Mark Twain and Artemus Ward, is recognized as contributing a distinctive, frontier type of American humor, noted for its broad kindliness and hyperbole.
Pseudonym of: Edgar Wilson
NYE, Edgar Wilson, humorist, born in Shirley, Piscataqua County, Maine, 25 August, He was educated in an academy at River Falls, Wisconsin, removed to Wyoming territory, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Comic History of England. Edgar Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye was an American humorist, journalist, and the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang. He was born in Shirley, Maine, and later moved to Wyoming Territory where he served as a justice of the peace, superintendent of schools, member of the city council, and postmaster.
William Sanford "Bill" Nye Works by Bill Nye at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Edgar Wilson Nye at Internet Archive; Works by Edgar Wilson Nye at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Readings of Bill Nye stories at Mister Ron's Ba*t podcast, indexed () Edgar Wilson Nye at Find a Grave; Bill Nye at Library of Congress Authorities, with 38 catalog records.