Alfred Henry Lewis

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Alfred Henry Lewis was an American journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short-story writer. He worked in newspapers in Chicago and later became a well-known magazine journalist and editor, building a reputation for energetic reporting and a lively, accessible style.

He is best remembered today for his Wolfville books, comic and colorful frontier tales that found a large audience in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alongside his fiction, he also wrote investigative and political work, including a book about New York's Tammany Hall machine, showing how comfortably he moved between entertainment and hard-edged public affairs.

Some catalog and archival records list him as 1857–1914, but major biographical sources describe his life as January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914. He also sometimes wrote under the pen name Dan Quin.