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Rowland Thomas
b. 1879
A Maine-born newspaper writer who built his career in Arkansas, he was known as an associate editor at the Arkansas Gazette and later wrote a nature column for the paper. Though details about his books are scarce online, the surviving record suggests a life shaped by journalism, observation, and regional writing.
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The Little Gods: A Masque of the Far East
by Rowland Thomas
About the author
Born in Castine, Maine, on June 22, 1879, Stanley Powers Rowland Thomas was an American author and journalist whose career became closely tied to Arkansas. Available reference works identify him as a notable author, and later archival sources place him at the Arkansas Gazette as an associate editor.
He was already regarded as an established writer and reporter by the time he came to Arkansas. In 1927, he married reporter Ruth Harris Thomas, who had been working at the Gazette, and university archives note that by 1933 he was writing a nature column for the newspaper.
Thomas died in 1945 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Much about his bibliography remains hard to confirm from reliable online sources, but the picture that emerges is of a seasoned newspaperman whose literary reputation was closely connected to his editorial work and his writing about the natural world.