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Page popularized the Plantation Tradition genre of Southern writing. His 1887 collection of short stories, ''In Ole Virginia'', is the quintessential work of that genre. Another short-story collection of his is entitled, ''The Burial of the Guns'' (1894). A scion of the prominent Nelson and Page families, he attended Washington College and the University Of Virginia in pursuit of a legal career and was a lawyer in Richmond between 1876 and 1893, when he moved to Washington . Here he kept up his writing, which amounted to eighteen volumes when they were compiled and published in 1912. Under Woodrow Wilson , Page served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for six years between 1913 and 1919. His book entitled ''Italy and the World War'' (1920) is a memoir of his service there. TITLES
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