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Harry Granice
d. 1915
Best remembered for a vivid true-crime memoir, this California newspaperman turned a violent episode from his own life into a tense firsthand narrative. He also played a notable role in early Northern California journalism, founding and running local papers that lasted beyond his lifetime.
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About the author
Born Henry Hale Granice in 1849 and often known as Harry Granice, he was a California editor, publisher, and author. His best-known book, Hunted Down; or, Five Days in the Fog (1875), is a short, dramatic account based on his own experience after he shot a man who had insulted his mother and then fled an angry mob.
Granice's life in print went far beyond that one sensational work. He purchased the Sonoma Index in 1884, renamed it the Sonoma Index-Tribune, and later started the weekly San Rafael Independent in 1900, which became a daily paper a few years later under the management of his daughter, Celeste Granice Murphy.
He died in 1915. The surviving record suggests a writer shaped by family ties to journalism and by the rough, personal intensity of the American West, leaving behind both a striking memoir and a small but lasting newspaper legacy.