author
H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight
1875–1959
Born in Constantinople and shaped by years of travel, this American writer brought readers vivid portraits of Turkey and the Middle East in books like Constantinople Old and New, Persian Miniatures, and Stamboul Nights. His life also reached beyond literature, including work in the U.S. State Department and later at the Frick Collection.
3 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
Constantinople old and new
by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight
The Emperor of Elam, and other stories
by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight
About the author
Born in Constantinople in 1875 to missionary parents, Harrison Griswold Dwight grew up with an unusually close view of the Ottoman world. He graduated from Amherst College in 1898, and that background later helped give his writing its strong sense of place and firsthand observation.
Dwight is best remembered for travel writing and fiction connected with Turkey and the broader region. Among the works associated with him are Constantinople Old and New, Persian Miniatures, Stamboul Nights, and The Emperor of Elam, and Other Stories. His books helped introduce English-language readers to the textures of everyday life, history, and atmosphere of places many of them knew only vaguely.
His career was not limited to books. Archival and library records describe him as an author who also served in the U.S. State Department and later became assistant director of the Frick Collection in New York from 1935 to 1947. I couldn't confirm a suitable verified portrait image from the sources I checked, so none is included here.