Alfred Henry Lewis
Alfred Henry Lewis | |
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| Born | January 20, 1855 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Died | December 23, 1914 (aged 59) |
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| Known for | Investigative journalism Wolfville books |
Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer,[1] who sometimes published under the pseudonym Dan Quin.[2]
Career[edit]
Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald.[3] By the late 19th century he was writing muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics.[3] In 1901 he published a biography of Richard Croker (1843–1922), a leading figure in the corrupt political machine known as Tammany Hall, which exercised a great deal of control over New York politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were Westerns from his Wolfville series, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914.
Bibliography[edit]
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Non-fiction[edit]
- Richard Croker (1901)
- Nation-famous New York Murders (1914)
Novels and short story collections[edit]
- Wolfville: Episodes of Cowboy Life (1893)
- Sandburrs (1900)
- Wolfville Days (1902)
- The Black Lion Inn (1903)
- The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York (1903)
- Peggy O'Neal (1903)
- The President (1904)
- The Sunset Trail (1905)
- Confessions of a Detective (1906)
- When Men Grew Tall; or, The Story of Andrew Jackson (1907)
- An American Patrician; or, The Story of Aaron Burr (1908)
- Wolfville Folks (1908)
- Wolfville Nights (1902)
- The Apaches of New York (1912)
- Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (1913)
References[edit]
- ^ "Alfred Henry Lewis, Author, Is Dead" (PDF). The New York Times. December 24, 1914. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
- ^ Marquis Who's Who in America, 1902, at archive.org
- ^ a b "Alfred Henry Lewis". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
External links[edit]
- Alfred Henry Lewis at IMDb
- Works by Alfred Henry Lewis at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Alfred Henry Lewis at Internet Archive
- Works by Alfred Henry Lewis at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1855 births
- 1914 deaths
- 19th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- American investigative journalists
- American male novelists
- Lawyers from Cleveland
- Western (genre) writers
- American male short story writers
- 20th-century American biographers
- 19th-century American short story writers
- 19th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- Journalists from Ohio
- 20th-century American male writers
- Novelists from Ohio
- 19th-century American lawyers
- American male biographers