Julian Leonard Street

Who was Julian Leonard Street?

Julian Leonard Street was an American author, born in Chicago. He was a reporter on the New York Mail and Express in 1899 and had charge of its dramatic department in 1900-01. His writings, characterized by a rather obvious but yet a genuine sense of humor, include:

My Enemy the Motor

The Need of Change

Paris à la Carte

Ship-Bored

The Goldfish

Welcome to Our City

Abroad at Home: A book of "American impressions" written after Street travelled "some five thousand miles and visited twenty cities" within his country.

American Adventures: A Second Trip "Abroad at Home".

Tides

He made contributions to magazines. Street twice won an O. Henry Award. His short story, Mr. Bisbee's Princess, published in Redbook and anthologized in Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories 1919-1934, won the award in 1925. The story was adapted as the 1926 W.C. Fields silent film, So's Your Old Man. In 1915 he published a book on Theodore Roosevelt, called The Most Interesting American.