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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920730
Author:Richard Harwood

I am reading Arthur Lubow's splendid biography of Richard Harding Davis, "The Reporter Who Would Be King." The last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th were his years of glory. He discovered, as a literary entrepreneur, the commercial possibilities of journalistic "recycling." His reportage, whether from a war zone or the African interior or a coronation in London, was sold simultaneously to newspapers and magazines. Soon afterward it would appear as an "instant" nonfiction book, then as the skeleton on which his dozens of short stories and novels were hung, then as ...

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