Alfred Lewis

Alfred R. Lewis III

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Dan Quin. Career Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. By the late 19th century he was writing muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. A...

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Dan Quin. Career Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. By the late 19th century he was writing muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. In 1901 he published a biography of Richard Croker (1843–1922), a leading figure in the corrupt political machine known as Tammany Hall, which exercised a great deal of control over New York politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were Westerns from his Wolfville series, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease at his home in Manhattan on December 23, 1914. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. Bibliography Non-fiction Richard Croker (1901) Nation-famous New York Murders (1914) Novels and short story collections References External links Alfred Henry Lewis at IMDb Works by Alfred Henry Lewis at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Alfred Henry Lewis at the Internet Archive Works by Alfred Henry Lewis at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)