Owen Wister

Owen Wister was an American writer and father of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards.

Owen Wister was born on July 14, 1860, in Germantown, a wellknown neighborhood in the northwestern part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician raised at Grumblethorpe in Germantown. He was a distant cousin of Sally Wister. His mother, Sarah Butler Wister, was the daughter of Fanny Kemble, a British actress, and Pierce Mease Butler.

Source: Wikipedia