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Charles Fish Howell
1868–1943
A journalist and travel writer with a sharp eye for atmosphere, he turned city life into vivid scenes on the page. His best-known books invite readers to wander Europe and Ireland through brisk, observant prose.
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Around the clock in Europe : A travel sequence
by Charles Fish Howell
About the author
Born in South Amboy, New Jersey, on June 8, 1868, Charles Fish Howell studied at Princeton, graduating in 1891 before building a career in journalism and editing. Sources describe him as having worked for the San Francisco Call, The Argus in Chicago, and later as an editor in New York.
Howell is best remembered today for travel writing, especially Around the Clock in Europe: A Travel Sequence (1912), which follows European cities through different hours of the day and captures their changing moods. He also wrote An Irish Ramble, another book shaped by close observation, movement, and place.
He died on June 5, 1943. While many details of his life are not widely documented online, the surviving record suggests a writer who brought a reporter’s curiosity and an editor’s clarity to literary travel.