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Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

Best known for a single surviving book, this early 20th-century writer left behind a warm, personal literary tribute rather than a large body of work. His work feels closely tied to newspaper and literary circles in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The Dead Men's Song

The Dead Men's Song

by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

About the author

Champion Ingraham Hitchcock was an American author active in the early 1900s. Publicly available records confirm that he was born in 1868 and died in 1927, and Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of The Dead Men's Song.

That 1914 book presents itself as a tribute to Young Ewing Allison, described on its title page as written by Allison's "friend and associate." The volume was published in Louisville, Kentucky, and its contents suggest Hitchcock moved in literary and newspaper circles, with a style shaped by reminiscence, commentary, and affection for the people he wrote about.

Very little biographical information about Hitchcock appears to be widely available today. Because of that, he is remembered less for a long published career than for preserving a vivid portrait of another writer and the cultural world around him.