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Cabell, James Branch (1879–1958)| US novelist. He made his name with Jurgen (1919). Many of his stories are set in the imaginary country of Poictesme, and the series entitled the ‘Biography of Manuel’ traces the lineage of its nobility from Dom Manuel, Count of Poictesme, to his Virginian descendants. |
| Other works include Gallantry (1907), Chivalry (1909), Something About Eve (1927), and the satirical trilogy Smirt (1934), Smith (1935), and Smire (1937). |
| He worked for a time as a journalist, and in 1913 was appointed genealogist of the Virginia chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. |
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