Boyesen graduated from the Royal Frederik University in Christiana, Norway. He immigrated to America when he was 21 and began his writing career with some poetry, published in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1872. By 1876, he had published a number of short stories, some of which were collected in the work, Tales From Two Hemispheres (1876). His first novel, Gunnar, was published in 1874, and was quite successful. He followed this with a semi-autobiographical novel, A Noreman's Pilgrimage in 1875. In all, Boyesen wrote 24 novels and an enormous amount of articles and essays for the leading magazines of his time. Some of his better-known works include Falconberg (1879), Queen Titania (1881), A Daughter of the Philistines (1884), The Mammon of Unrighteousness (1891), Golden Calf (1892) and Social Strugglers (1893). |
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