Literary Birthday – 18 April – Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis was born on 18 April 1864 and died on 11 April 1916.

Richard Harding Davis Quotes

1. The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
2. All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army…. This was a machine, endless, tireless, with the delicate organisation of a watch and the brute power of a steam-roller.
3. No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
4. What I admire most in men – To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama. He wrote romantic novels and short stories. He was best known as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His books include Soldiers of Fortune,  Cinderella and Other Stories, and The Amateur. Several of his 25 plays were also very successful, notably Ranson’s Folly, The Dictator, and Miss Civilization. His mother Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent writer and his father, Lemuel Clarke Davis, was a journalist who edited the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

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by Amanda Patterson

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