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Walter Phelps Dodge
1869–1931
Born in Beirut and educated across Europe, this cosmopolitan writer turned a life of travel and wide reading into biographies, historical studies, and retellings of Greek tales. His books range from literary sketches to studies of figures like Charles I and Sir Richard Burton.
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As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross
by Walter Phelps Dodge
About the author
Born on June 13, 1869, in Beirut, Walter Phelps Dodge was the son of educator and missionary David Stuart Dodge. Reference works describe him as an American author and lawyer, and note that he studied under private tutors in Greece and Germany, attended Yale, and later spent time at Oxford.
Dodge wrote across several genres, including history, biography, and literary retellings. Sources connected with his bibliography and biographical notices credit him with works such as Three Greek Tales, Piers Gaveston, From Squire to Prince, King Charles I: A Study, and The Real Sir Richard Burton. The range of those titles suggests a writer drawn to vivid historical personalities and to stories that linked Europe, the Mediterranean, and the wider world.
He died in 1931. A family-history source places him at Simsbury, Connecticut, and Park Lane, London, and identifies him as F.R.G.S., reflecting the international cast of both his life and his writing.