Keene Abbott

Born in 1876 and usually published as Keene Abbott, Lewis Keene Abbott built his career in both journalism and fiction. Reliable Nebraska literary records describe him as a writer whose short stories appeared in magazines including The Atlantic, Harper's, Outlook, The Saturday Evening Post, and Ladies' Home Journal.

Abbott spent many years at the Omaha World-Herald, where he became a longtime drama critic. A contemporaneous memorial record says he worked for the paper in various roles from 1903 until retiring in 1935, after which he planned to give more of his time to fiction.

His books include A Melody in Silver (1911) and Wine o' the Winds (1920), the latter remembered as a Nebraska prairie novel. He died in 1941.