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De Forest, John William

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De Forest, John William (1826-1906)

US novelist. He wrote Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (1867), a realistic novel of the American Civil War, in which De Forest served under Philip Sheridan, and other novels with political implications.

Among his other novels, all notable for their vigorous character portrayals, are Kate Beaumont (1872), Honest John Vane (1875), and Playing the Mischief (1875).



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