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Daniel Wright Kittredge

1879–1958

Best known for the strange, satirical novel The Memoirs of a Failure, this early-20th-century writer explored disappointment, ambition, and the uneasy fit between intellectual life and the world around it.

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The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His Manuscript

The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His Manuscript

by Daniel Wright Kittredge

About the author

Daniel Wright Kittredge was an American author born in 1879 and died in 1958. The work most clearly confirmed in available library and public-domain records is The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His Manuscript, first published in 1908.

Public book listings also credit him with A Mind Adrift (1920), suggesting a writer drawn to inward, reflective fiction. His surviving reputation seems to rest on unusual, psychologically minded novels rather than a large, widely documented literary career.

Reliable biographical details beyond his dates and book attributions were limited in the sources I could confirm, so this profile keeps to the basics.