The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis.

Columbia Journalism Review | July 1, 1992| | Copyright

In the years after our parents are gone, we miss them in different ways. My father, who died at eighty-seven in 1977, was a World War I hero and journalist who wrote for the Trenton Times, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Philadelphia Record, and the New York Herald Tribune; and I'll always regret that I never asked him whether he knew -- or perhaps once saw -- the great war correspondent, novelist, playwright, turnof-the-century idol of American youth, Richard Harding Davis.

To see or meet Davis, as so many of his contemporaries recall, seems to have been an experience ...

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