Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916
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Richard Harding Davis
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Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1914
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Дэвис, Ричард Гардинг, 1864-1916
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Davis, Mrs; of Add MS 37312
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Harding Davis, Richard
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Dėvis, Richard Garding 1864-1916
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Dėvis, Richard Garding, 1864-1916
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Deviss, Ričardss Hardings, 1864-1916
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Davis, R. H.
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Devis, Richard Garding
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Девис, Ричард Гардинг 1864-1916
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Davis, Richard H.
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Devis, Richard Garding, 1864-1916
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Hardings Deviss, Ričards, 1864-1916
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Richard Harding Davis, Aylmer Maude
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American author, editor and war correspondent.
American newspaperman, war correspondent and novelist.
American journalist and author.
American writer, journalist, war correspondent.
Newspaperman, war correspondent, novelist.
Richard Harding Davis was an American author and journalist. The son of two writers, he began writing for Philadelphia and New York papers, and later became editor of Harper's Weekly. He is best known as a war correspondent, starting with his coverage of the Spanish-American War for William Randolph Hearst; he covered every war of his lifetime. He also wrote fiction, and popular memoirs based on his war and journalism experiences.
American journalist and author; managing editor, Harper's Weekly.
American author.
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Richard Harding Davis, American writer, journalist, and war correspondent, was born April 18, 1864, in Philadelphia and died April 11, 1916. He was the son of newspaper editor Lemuel Clarke and Rebecca Harding Davis, a novelist.
Davis began his writing career as a journalist and is perhaps best known for his work as a war correspondent, reporting on the War of 1898 in Cuba, the Boer War in South Africa, and World War I. Davis's articles appeared among the pages of many newspapers, including the Philadelphia Record, the Philadelphia Press, and the New York Evening Sun .
Many of Davis's works enjoyed mass circulation through popular periodicals such as Stage, Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Collier's Weekly, Outing, Metropolitan Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine . Though Davis had aspirations for a literary career, producing both plays and novels, his works were not always received with fanfare.
"Richard Harding Davis." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed October 2008).
Journalist and author.
Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1864. His father was a newspaper editor and his mother a novelist. Davis started his career in newspapers, and became of well recognized reporter. He contributed articles to magazines, and eventually published compilations of his work. Davis also wrote fiction. While popular during his lifetime, his writings were rooted in his era, and did not endure. David died of a heart attack at his home in Mount Kisco, New York, in 1916.
Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist, war correspondent, and novelist.
He was born in Philadelphia, the son of novelist, Rebecca (Harding) Blaine, in 1864. Davis studied at The Johns Hopkins University, 1884-1886, was a writer on the staff of the "New York Sun" in 1889, and was managing editor of "Harper's Weekly" in 1890. He wrote travel books, popular fiction, and plays. Davis died in 1916.
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