DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING , American writer, was born in Philadelphia, April 18, 1864. He studied at Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities, and in 1886 became a reporter on the Philadelphia Record. After working on several newspapers, at the same time writing short stories, he was manag ing editor of Harper's W eekly. In Dec. I8go he arranged to travel and write for Harper's Monthly, the first book thus resulting being The West from a Car-Window (1892). He became widely known as a war correspondent, reporting every war from the Greco-Turkish War 0897) to the World War. Of his numerous works of fiction, the earliest are the best, especially Gallegher and Other Stories (i89i), and Van Bibber and Others (1892). His other books include Soldiers of Fortune (1897), A Year from a Reporter's Note-Book (1898), Real Soldiers of Fortune (i906), Farces (1906), The White Mice (1909), Notes of a War Corre spondent (Iwo), and Somewhere in France (1915). He died near Mt. Kisco, N.Y., April 1916.
There have been several collective editions, the principal one being The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis OW). A collec tion of the best of his short stories, From Gallegher to the Deserter, was edited by Roger Burlingame in 1927. See also Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (igi7), edited by his brother Charles B. Davis and Richard Harding Davis; a Bibliography (1924), by H. C. Quinby.