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Richard Harding Davis
1864–1916
A bestselling journalist-novelist of the Gilded Age, he brought speed, style, and firsthand drama to stories of war, politics, and high society. His adventures as a foreign correspondent helped shape the modern image of the reporter on the scene.
53 Audiobooks
Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act
by Richard Harding Davis
Real Soldiers of Fortune
by Richard Harding Davis
In the Fog
by Richard Harding Davis
The Congo and Coasts of Africa
by Richard Harding Davis
Soldiers of Fortune
by Richard Harding Davis
The Exiles and Other Stories
by Richard Harding Davis
Notes of a War Correspondent
by Richard Harding Davis
The Lion and the Unicorn
by Richard Harding Davis
Gallegher and Other Stories
by Richard Harding Davis
The Rulers of the Mediterranean
by Richard Harding Davis
Van Bibber and Others
by Richard Harding Davis
The Princess Aline
by Richard Harding Davis
The King's Jackal
by Richard Harding Davis
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
by Richard Harding Davis
The Log of the "Jolly Polly"
by Richard Harding Davis
Once Upon A Time
by Richard Harding Davis
The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys
by Richard Harding Davis
A Wasted Day
by Richard Harding Davis
Three gringos in Venezuela and Central America
by Richard Harding Davis
Stories for Boys
by Richard Harding Davis
About Paris
by Richard Harding Davis
The Scarlet Car
by Richard Harding Davis
The Red Cross Girl
by Richard Harding Davis
The White Mice
by Richard Harding Davis
Cinderella, and Other Stories
by Richard Harding Davis
The West from a car window
by Richard Harding Davis
The Lost Road
by Richard Harding Davis
The Lost House
by Richard Harding Davis
Somewhere in France
by Richard Harding Davis
With the French in France and Salonika
by Richard Harding Davis
The Spy
by Richard Harding Davis
The Man Who Could Not Lose
by Richard Harding Davis
The Frame Up
by Richard Harding Davis
A Charmed Life
by Richard Harding Davis
The scarlet car; The Princess Aline
by Richard Harding Davis
The Boy Scout
by Richard Harding Davis
The Amateur
by Richard Harding Davis
My Buried Treasure
by Richard Harding Davis
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life
by Richard Harding Davis
The Make-Believe Man
by Richard Harding Davis
A Question of Latitude
by Richard Harding Davis
Captain Macklin: His Memoirs
by Richard Harding Davis
Vera, the Medium
by Richard Harding Davis
Billy and the Big Stick
by Richard Harding Davis
The Reporter Who Made Himself King
by Richard Harding Davis
The Nature Faker
by Richard Harding Davis
Ranson's Folly
by Richard Harding Davis
Peace Manoeuvres
by Richard Harding Davis
The Deserter
by Richard Harding Davis
With the Allies
by Richard Harding Davis
The Messengers
by Richard Harding Davis
The Consul
by Richard Harding Davis
Cuba in War Time
by Richard Harding Davis
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1864, Richard Harding Davis grew up in a literary family: his mother was the writer Rebecca Harding Davis, and he went on to make a name for himself as both a fiction writer and a journalist. He became widely known in the late 19th century for lively short stories and novels that captured American ambition, travel, and fashionable urban life.
Davis was especially influential as a reporter. He covered major international conflicts, including the Spanish-American War and later World War I, and was often described as one of the first American war correspondents to become a public celebrity. His dispatches mixed eyewitness detail with a strong narrative voice, helping bring distant events vividly to readers at home.
Alongside his reporting, he wrote popular fiction, plays, and travel pieces, building a career that bridged literature and mass media. He died in 1916, but his work still offers a vivid look at the energy, confidence, and anxieties of turn-of-the-century America.