(1853-), an American author. He was a native of Virginia and received his education at Washington and Lee University and at the University of Virginia. He studied law and practiced for a time, but, after his first volume of poems was published in 1883, he devoted himself to literature. These poems were in the negro dialect and the volume was entitled Befo' de War. Page's short stories are graceful, pathetic, and humorous. Among them Marse Chan and Meh Lady are best known. They are collected in a volume entitled In Ole Virginia. Elsket and Red Rock are longer stories that have won a deserved popularity.