By Owen Kildare

Published by The Baker & Taylor Company, New York, 1903

Owen Frawley Kildare (June 11, 1864 – February 4, 1911) was an American writer active in the early 20th century. His short stories and novels described the grim realities of life in a New York City slum. Often heard to comment that he was "born in the gutter", he was known as "the Mr. Bounderby of American Letters" and "the Kipling of the Bowery".

Kildare and playwright Walter C. Hackett adapted My Mamie Rose, Kildare's first major work and autobiography, for the stage in 1908, starring actor Arnold Daly. The production was titled Regeneration, and Kildare became angry and despondent after seeing Daly's interpretation of his character. Then after a fall in the subway, Kildare suffered a mental breakdown. He was placed in Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and later moved to Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. From the time of his hospitalization in 1908 until his death, he would not leave the psychiatric hospital system. He died after a seizure in 1911 at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.

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