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Book World; The Star That Blazed and Died
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920722
Author:Jonathan Yardley
THE REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING; A Biography of Richard Harding Davis
By Arthur Lubow
Scribners. 438 pp. $25
Surely it is revealing that at the end of Arthur Lubow's careful, scrupulous, exceedingly long biography, Richard Harding Davis is almost as much an enigma as he was at its outset. A man who consciously cultivated his own image, who in his life and in his work blurred the line between fact and fiction beyond the point of differentiation, Davis proves a riddle that neither Lubow nor the reader can solve: a man whose words and deeds we can know but whose inner self defies true ...
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