Quote of the day
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Richard Harding Davis
Born: April 18, 1864
Died: April 11, 1916 (aged 51)
Bio: Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.
Known for:
- The Bar Sinister (1903)
- Real Soldiers of Fortune (1906)
- Cuba in War Time (1897)
- Notes of a War Correspondent (1897)
- Cinderella and Other Stories (1896)