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Warner, Anna Bartlett

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Anna Bartlett: see under Warner, Susan Bogert. ...

Warner, Charles Dudley

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829–1900, American editor and author, b. Plainfield, Mass., grad. Hamilton College, 1851, LL.B. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1858. After practicing law in Chicago, he was associat...

Warner, Glenn Scobey

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Glenn Scobey, 1871–1954, American football coach, commonly known as “Pop” Warner, b. Springville, N.Y., grad. Cornell (LL.B., 1894). He excelled as guard (1892–94) on the Cornell footb...

Warner, Harry Morris

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Harry Morris: see Warner Brothers. ...

Warner, Jack Leonard

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Jack Leonard: see Warner Brothers. ...

Warner, Mark Robert

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Mark Robert, 1954–, U.S. politician, b. Indianapolis, grad George Washington Univ. (B.A., 1977), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1980). After settling in Virginia and working as a congressional st...

Warner, Samuel Louis

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Samuel Louis: see Warner Brothers. ...

Warner, Susan Bogert

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Susan Bogert, pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819–85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale of an orphan. ...

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978, English novelist and poet. Her first published work was poetry, The Espalier (1925), but she became more generally known with two novels of gentle fantasy, Lolly ...

Warner, William Lloyd

(Encyclopedia)Warner, William Lloyd, 1898–1970, U.S. social anthropologist, b. Redlands, Calif., B.A., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1925. After studying the Australian aborigines (1927–29), he applied the res...