Irish novelist Donn Byrne (1889-1928) was born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne in New York. In 1907 he went to the University of Dublin to study Romance languages. While at the school he published in The National Student, the student magazine. After graduation he continued his studies in Europe, hoping to join the British Foreign Office. Giving up the Service, he returned to New York in 1911, where he began working first for the Catholic Encyclopedia, the New Standard Dictionary, and then the Century Dictionary. In 1912 his poem The Piper appeared in Harper's magazine. His first short story, Battle sold soon after to Smart Set magazine for $50.00, appearing in the February 1914 issue. He sold more stories to various magazines, some of these were anthologized in his first book, Stories Without Women (1915). He then began working on his first novel, The Stranger's Banquet (1919). He was a prolific novelist and short story writer from this point on. The novel Field of Honor was published posthumously in 1929.
Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was an Irish novelist born in New York in 1889 while his parents were in the United States on business. In 1907 he went to the University of Dublin to study Romance languages where he published his writings in the student magazine. His novels include Blind Raftery and His Wife Hilaria (1924), Brother Saul (1928), Crusade (1928), Field of Honor (1929), or The Power of the Dog, The Foolish Matrons (1920), Hangman's House (1926), and Messr. Marco Polo. This story was first published in 1921. Marco Polo is sent to China to explain the mysteries of Christianity, but his only convert is Kubla Khan's beautiful daughter, Golden Bells, with whom he falls in love.
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