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Richard Harding Davis

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080424
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Richard Harding Davis 1864-1916, American author and journalist, b. Philadelphia; son of Rebecca Harding Davis . After attending Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities, he became a reporter in Philadelphia and later was on the New York Evening Sun. His stories and articles were soon attracting attention, and with the publication of Gallegher and Other Stories (1891), a collection of tales about a newsboy-detective, his reputation as a fiction writer was established. In 1890 he became managing editor of Harper's Weekly and began making trips in its behalf to various parts of the world. ...

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