Introduction

Biography

A min­is­ter, Jo­seph was the son of Au­gus­tus and Cath­er­ine Es­en­wein, and hus­band of Ca­rol­ine Mill­er (mar­ried 1889, Schuyl­kill Coun­ty, Penn­syl­van­ia).

Works

• Sunday School Chimes, with Eli­sha A. Hof­fman (Har­ris­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia: Ev­an­ge­li­cal Pub­lish­ing, 1894)
• Writing the Short-Sto­ry; A Prac­ti­cal Hand­book on the Rise, Struc­ture, Writ­ing, and Sale of the Mod­ern Short-Sto­ry (New York: Hinds, No­ble & El­dredge, 1909)
• Writing the Pho­to­play: A Com­plete Ma­nu­al of In­struc­tion in the Na­ture, Writ­ing, and Mar­ket­ing of the Mov­ing-Pic­ture Play, with Ar­thur Leeds, 1913
• The Art of Pub­lic Speak­ing, with Dale Car­ne­gie, 1915
• Children’s Stor­ies and How to Tell Them, 1917
• Short-Sto­ry Mas­ter­pie­ces
• The Art of Sto­ry Writ­ing
• How to At­tract and Hold an Au­di­ence
• The Book of the Ep­ic: The World’s Great Ep­ics Told in Sto­ry, with Hé­lène Ad­e­line Guer­ber
• The Art of Ver­si­fi­ca­tion
• Writing for the Ma­ga­zines