Paul Kester

Paul Kester was an American playwright and novelist. He was the younger brother of journalist Vaughan Kester and a cousin of the literary editor and critic William Dean Howells.

Kester was born in 1870 some thirty miles north of Columbus at Delaware, Ohio, He was the younger of two sons raised by Franklin Frank Cooley and Harriet Kester. His father was traveling salesman, and mother an art teacher who in 1882 helped found the Cleveland School of Art. Kester was educated by home tutors and at private schools where he excelled in the dramatic arts.

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