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Julian Leonard Street (1879-1947) was an American author, born in Chicago. He was a reporter on the New York Mail and Express (later Evening Mail) in 1899 and had charge of its dramatic department in 1900-01. His writings, characterized by a rather obvious but yet a genuine sense of humor, include: My Enemy the Motor (1908), The Need of Change (1909) and Paris à la Carte (1912). He made contributions to magazines. Street twice won an O. Henry Award. His short story, Mr. Bisbee''s Princess, published in Redbook and anthologized in Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories 1919-1934, won the award in 1925. The story was adapted as the 1926 W. C. Fields silent film, So''s Your Old Man.