Harry Perry Robinson

Born on November 30, 1859, in British India, Harry Perry Robinson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He later spent many years in the United States, where he worked in journalism and wrote about subjects ranging from railroads and public life to wildlife and photography.

Robinson became especially known as a writer and journalist whose life was anything but quiet. He worked in America, returned to Britain, and went on to serve as a war correspondent during World War I. His reporting earned him major recognition, and he was later knighted.

As an author, he wrote across an unusually broad range of topics. Alongside journalism and war writing, he published nature books such as The Life Story of a Black Bear, bringing the same lively, observant style to the natural world that he brought to current events and travel.