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Richard Harding Davis
1864–1916
Best known as one of America’s first star war correspondents, this energetic writer turned newspaper reporting into vivid adventure stories, social comedies, and fast-moving fiction. His work captured the swagger, ambition, and spectacle of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
53 Audiobooks
The Scarlet Car
by Richard Harding Davis
In the Fog
by Richard Harding Davis
Real Soldiers of Fortune
by Richard Harding Davis
Three gringos in Venezuela and Central America
by Richard Harding Davis
Captain Macklin: His Memoirs
by Richard Harding Davis
The Princess Aline
by Richard Harding Davis
The Consul
by Richard Harding Davis
The King's Jackal
by Richard Harding Davis
The West from a car window
by Richard Harding Davis
Soldiers of Fortune
by Richard Harding Davis
A Charmed Life
by Richard Harding Davis
The Lost Road
by Richard Harding Davis
The Congo and Coasts of Africa
by Richard Harding Davis
The Lion and the Unicorn
by Richard Harding Davis
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life
by Richard Harding Davis
With the Allies
by Richard Harding Davis
The Deserter
by Richard Harding Davis
Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act
by Richard Harding Davis
The scarlet car; The Princess Aline
by Richard Harding Davis
Billy and the Big Stick
by Richard Harding Davis
Peace Manoeuvres
by Richard Harding Davis
Somewhere in France
by Richard Harding Davis
Cuba in War Time
by Richard Harding Davis
Van Bibber and Others
by Richard Harding Davis
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
by Richard Harding Davis
The Make-Believe Man
by Richard Harding Davis
A Question of Latitude
by Richard Harding Davis
A Wasted Day
by Richard Harding Davis
The Messengers
by Richard Harding Davis
The Reporter Who Made Himself King
by Richard Harding Davis
The Red Cross Girl
by Richard Harding Davis
Gallegher and Other Stories
by Richard Harding Davis
The Spy
by Richard Harding Davis
My Buried Treasure
by Richard Harding Davis
The White Mice
by Richard Harding Davis
Notes of a War Correspondent
by Richard Harding Davis
Stories for Boys
by Richard Harding Davis
The Log of the "Jolly Polly"
by Richard Harding Davis
Cinderella, and Other Stories
by Richard Harding Davis
About Paris
by Richard Harding Davis
Vera, the Medium
by Richard Harding Davis
With the French in France and Salonika
by Richard Harding Davis
The Exiles and Other Stories
by Richard Harding Davis
The Man Who Could Not Lose
by Richard Harding Davis
The Lost House
by Richard Harding Davis
Ranson's Folly
by Richard Harding Davis
Once Upon A Time
by Richard Harding Davis
The Boy Scout
by Richard Harding Davis
The Nature Faker
by Richard Harding Davis
The Amateur
by Richard Harding Davis
The Frame Up
by Richard Harding Davis
The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys
by Richard Harding Davis
The Rulers of the Mediterranean
by Richard Harding Davis
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1864, he became one of the best-known reporters of his generation after studying at Lehigh and Johns Hopkins and beginning newspaper work in the 1880s. Reliable reference sources describe him as an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, remembered above all for his reporting on the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I.
He also built a successful literary career alongside journalism, publishing romantic novels, short stories, and plays for a wide audience. His brisk, visual style helped shape the image of the adventurous foreign correspondent, and his writing was influential enough to be noted for helping Theodore Roosevelt’s political rise.
He died in 1916, just short of his fifty-second birthday. Today he is often remembered both for his lively storytelling and for the way he helped define modern American war reporting at a time when newspapers and magazines could turn journalists into celebrities.