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John D. (John Daniel) Barry
1866–1942
A Boston-born novelist and journalist, he wrote with an eye for theater, culture, and city life. He is especially remembered for books like The City of Domes, which captured the spirit of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
3 Audiobooks
The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth
by John D. (John Daniel) Barry
Mademoiselle Blanche: A Novel
by John D. (John Daniel) Barry
The congressman's wife, a story of American politics
by John D. (John Daniel) Barry
About the author
Born in Boston on December 31, 1866, John Daniel Barry built a career as an American novelist, journalist, lecturer, critic, and biographer. Reference sources and library records consistently identify him with those roles, and public-domain listings preserve a substantial body of his work.
His writing ranged across fiction, biography, and cultural commentary. Among the books most closely associated with him are A Daughter of Thespis, Julia Marlowe, and The City of Domes, a vivid book about the Panama-Pacific International Exposition that grew out of articles first published in the San Francisco Bulletin.
Barry died on November 3, 1942. Although he is not widely read today, his work offers a lively window into American literary and cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century, especially in the worlds of performance, journalism, and public spectacle.