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Alfred Henry Lewis
Born(1855-01-20)January 20, 1855
Cleveland, Ohio, US
DiedDecember 23, 1914(1914-12-23) (aged 59)
Manhattan, New York, US
Burial placeWoodlawn Cemetery
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • writer
  • editor
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, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Dan Quin.

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. 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 at his home in Manhattan on December 23, 1914. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Novels and short story collections

References

  1. ^ "Alfred H. Lewis, Author, is Dead". The New York Times. December 24, 1914. p. 9. Retrieved October 15, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.
  2. Marquis Who's Who in America, 1902, at archive.org
  3. ^ "Alfred Henry Lewis". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
  4. "Lewis Funeral Simple". New-York Tribune. December 25, 1914. p. 9. Retrieved October 15, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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