Orlando Benedict Mayer Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 20 pages of information about the life of Orlando Benedict Mayer.

Orlando Benedict Mayer Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 20 pages of information about the life of Orlando Benedict Mayer.
This section contains 5,908 words
(approx. 20 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Orlando Benedict Mayer Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Orlando Benedict Mayer

Orlando Benedict Mayer was born near Pomaria, in present-day Newberry County, South Carolina. A rustic humorist whose work was mostly published anonymously or pseudonymously, Mayer is only now being discovered and, it seems, deserves to rank high among writers of Southern backwoods humor. He also figures strongly as a precursor of the local-color movement.

Hans Ulrich Mayer, the author's great-grandfather, came to Pomaria from Germany in 1752. Both he and his son, Johannes Adam Benedict, fought in the South Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War. Johannes Benedict, the author's grandfather, married the daughter of the Colonel Adam Summer whom Mayer describes in his history of the community as the pioneer settler of the area. Johannes became a well-to-do farmer and blacksmith and owned large holdings of land on the Broad River. He had one son, Adam, the author's father. Orlando Mayer was born on 24 February 1818 to Adam Mayer and...

(read more)

This section contains 5,908 words
(approx. 20 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Orlando Benedict Mayer Biography
Copyrights
Gale
Orlando Benedict Mayer from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.