Anglo-American novelist, born on the 19th of August 1856 at Utica, NY; educated there, and took to journalism. He went to live in England as London correspondent of the New York Times in 1884, and was soon recognized for his ability both as a writer and as a talker. He wrote several clever early stories, but it was not till he published Illumination (1896), followed by Gloria Mundi (1898), that his remarkable gifts as a novelist were fully realized. He died in England on the 19th of October 1898. See also “The Last Rite” and The Damnation of Theron Ware.
