author
Daniel Wright Kittredge
1879–1958
An early-20th-century writer whose surviving work ranges from fiction to essay, he is remembered today mainly for The Memoirs of a Failure, first published in 1908. His books suggest a thoughtful, literary mind interested in conflict, failure, and the restless search for meaning.
1 Audiobook
The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His Manuscript
by Daniel Wright Kittredge
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm from reliable online sources beyond his life dates, 1879–1958, and the works published under his name. He appears in library and public-domain records as the author of The Memoirs of a Failure (1908), a literary work presented as the life and manuscript of William Wirt Dunlevy.
Other books attributed to him in catalog and bookseller records include All the World Loves a Quarrel: An Introduction to One (1911) and A Mind Adrift (1920). Taken together, those titles point to a writer drawn to inner struggle, argument, and unsettled states of mind.
Because solid biographical sketches are scarce, the work itself gives the clearest sense of his voice: reflective, psychologically curious, and interested in people who do not fit comfortably into ordinary success stories.