The New Student's Reference Work/Davis, Richard Harding

Davis, Richard Harding, American novelist and journalist, son of the preceding, was born at Philadelphia, April 18, 1864, and educated at Lehigh and Johns Hopkins Universities. He began life as a reporter and correspondent for New York newspapers, and in 1888 became connected with the New York Sun, to which he contributed his early stories. He has traveled considerably, and has been managing editor for a number of years of Harper’s Weekly. He possesses excellent descriptive power, as his Three Gringoes in Central America and The West from a Car-Window manifest. His chief publications include Gallagher and Other Stories; Our English Cousins; Cuba in War-Time; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; and a book on the.