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Howard V. (Howard Vigne) Sutherland
b. 1868
A South African-born poet, journalist, and playwright whose life ranged from England and Argentina to San Francisco, the Klondike, and later Hawaii. His writing drew on travel, city life, and the northern frontier, giving his work a wide sense of place.
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Out of the North
by Howard V. (Howard Vigne) Sutherland
About the author
Born in Cape Town on August 3, 1868, Howard Vigne Sutherland built an unusually international life before settling in the United States. Archival and library records describe him as a playwright, journalist, and poet, and note that he became a U.S. citizen in 1895.
He worked in San Francisco newspaper circles as both a journalist and an editor or business manager, and he also spent time in the Klondike from 1898 to 1899 as a miner. Those experiences fed into books such as Jacinta, a California Idyll and Other Verses (1900), Bigg's Bar, and Other Klondyke Ballads (1901), Songs of a City (1904), the three series of Idylls of Greece (1908–1914), and Out of the North (1913).
Later in life he moved to Honolulu, where records note public service under the territorial government. He died in 1943, remembered today mainly through his poetry and the manuscript collections that preserve his work and clippings about his career.