Charles Fish Howell

Born in South Amboy, New Jersey, on June 8, 1868, he studied at Princeton and graduated in 1891. Early in his career he worked in journalism, including at the San Francisco Call and later The Argus in Chicago, before moving into editorial work in New York.

He is most closely associated with travel writing. His best-known books include Around the Clock in Europe: A Travel-Sequence (1912) and An Irish Ramble (1930), both of which reflect a taste for place, atmosphere, and the small details that make travel memorable.

Available records on him are fairly limited, but they suggest a writer and editor whose background in newspapers shaped his clear, accessible prose. He died in June 1943.