Alfred Henry Lewis Explained

Birth Date:20 January 1855
Birth Place:Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Death Place:Manhattan, New York, US
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

Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. 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

Non-fiction

Novels and short story collections

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alfred Henry Lewis, Author, Is Dead . . December 24, 1914 . May 11, 2011.
  2. https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/680 Marquis Who's Who in America
  3. Web site: Alfred Henry Lewis . Spartacus Educational . 14 December 2013.