Name Alfred Lewis | Role Journalist | |
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Born January 20, 1855 ( 1855-01-20 ) Cleveland, Ohio, United States Occupation Journalist, writer, editor Known for Investigative journalismWolfville books Books Wolfville, Wolfville Nights, Wolfville Days, The sunset trail, Faro Nell and her friends | ||
Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer.
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. For his next biography, When Men Grew Tall (1907), he turned a more forgiving eye to Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), the seventh President of the United States.
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 in 1914.