11 Facts About Paul Kester

Paul Kester was an American playwright and novelist.

Paul Kester was the younger brother of journalist Vaughan Kester and a cousin of the literary editor and critic William Dean Howells.

Paul Kester was the younger of two sons raised by Franklin "Frank" Cooley and Harriet Kester.

Paul Kester's father was a traveling salesman, and his mother was an art teacher who in 1882 helped and found the Cleveland School of Art.

Paul Kester was educated by home tutors and at private schools where he excelled in the dramatic arts.

Paul Kester authored a number of books, with His Own Country most likely the more popular.

Five years later the two acquired nearby Gunston Hall, where Vaughan Paul Kester died in 1911.

Paul Kester spent his final years at Lake Mohegan, a small community near Peekskill, New York.

Paul Kester died there in 1933 at the age of 62, a victim of thrombosis.

Paul Kester is buried in the graveyard at Pohick Church, once the parish church of Gunston Hall; at one time he had served as a member of the church vestry.

Paul Kester spoke of his novel His Own Country in the aftermath of World War I:.