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Edward Lyell Fox
b. 1887
A fast-moving early 20th-century journalist, he reported from Europe during World War I and turned his experiences into vivid books about Germany and the war. His career was brief, but his writing captured the tension, politics, and spectacle of the moment from close range.
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Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany
by Edward Lyell Fox
About the author
Born in New York on September 29, 1887, Edward Lyell Fox was an American newspaper and magazine writer who began his career in the late 1900s. Records of his work show him connected with New York journalism before he became widely known as a foreign correspondent and author.
Fox is best remembered for his World War I-era writing, including Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany (1915) and later books such as Wilhelm Hohenzollern [and] Co. His work focused on Germany, wartime politics, and the personalities behind the conflict, giving readers a vivid, reportorial view of events as they unfolded.
His life appears to have ended young, with grave and library records pointing to January 1920 as the time of his death. Even in that short span, he left behind a body of reporting that reflects the urgency and drama of wartime journalism in the 1910s.