Richard Harding Davis

Early Life

• 1864: Born in Philadelphia
• After attending Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities, he became a reporter in Philadelphia and later was on the New York Evening Sun.
• Published fiction, including Gallegher and Other Stories (1891), a collection of tales about a newsboy-detective
• 1890: Became managing editor of Harper’s Weekly and began making trips to various parts of the world

Writing

• As a foreign correspondent, he covered all the wars of his day and published several books recording his experiences, including Spanish-American war, Russian-Japanese war, and Boer war (South Africa).
• Other writings include the novels Soldiers of Fortune (1897) and The Bar Sinister (1903) and the plays, The Dictator (1904) and Miss Civilization (1906).
• Died in 1916 in Mount Kisco, N.Y.