Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was born in Pennsylvania, surrounded by literature. His father was a newspaper editor, and Richard himself entered actively, in 1886, upon the newspaper career that was to make him the most widely known reporter of his generation. He produced no less than seven popular novels, some of them among the best sellers of their period: The Bar Sinister (1903); Vera the Medium (1908); Soldiers of Fortune (1897); The King's Jackal (1898); Captain Macklin (1902); The White Mice (1909). The last four covered international affairs. He was also a successful playwright, with three plays running simultaneously on Broadway at one time. Davis was always playing the journalist, but understood what the public wanted to read, and the issues they wanted addressed. His writing was always vivid, easily accessible, and dramatic, but without becoming enmeshed in the deeper and more complex aspects of human psychology.

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Soldiers of Fortune

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