Ripley Hitchcock
Ripley Hitchcock | |
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| Born | James Ripley Wellman Hitchcock July 3, 1857 Fitchburg, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 5, 1918 (aged 60) New York, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Editor, writer |
| Spouses | Martha Barker Wolcott
(m. 1883; died 1903)Helen Sanborn Sargent
(m. 1914) |
| Children | 2 |
Ripley Hitchcock (born James Ripley Wellman Hitchcock; 1857–1918) was a prominent American editor. He edited the works of Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Zane Grey, Joel Chandler Harris, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.[1]
Biography
Ripley Hitchcock was born in
New York College of Physicians and Surgeons for one year.[3]
He started work as a journalist for
He also wrote books on art and the history of the West and was a member of the
Authors Club.[1]
He married Martha Barker Wolcott on May 23, 1883. She died in 1903, and he remarried to Helen Sanborn Sargent on January 7, 1914. They had two sons.[2]
Ripley Hitchcock died at the Park Avenue Hotel in Manhattan on May 5, 1918.[5]
Bibliography
- The Western Art Movement (New York, 1885)
- A Study of George Jenness, with a catalogue of the Jenness exhibition (1885)
- Etching in America (1886)
- Madonnas by old masters (1888)
- Some American painters in water colors: Fac-similes of new works by William D. Smedley ... [et al.] ; with portraits of the artists and representations of their work in black-and-white (1890)
- Thomas De Quincey: A study (1899)
- Louisiana Purchases Explorations Early History Building Of West (1903)
- Richard Henry Stoddard: Some personal notes (1903)
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905)
References
- ^ ISBN 9780313296925.
- ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XVIII. James T. White & Company. 1922. pp. 173–174. Retrieved December 28, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ Lingeman, Richard . "The Biographical Significance of Jennie Gerhardt". Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text. Ed. James L. W., III West. University of Pennsylvania Press: 1996, pages 11–13
- ^ "Ripley Hitchcock Dead". Brooklyn Eagle. May 6, 1918. p. 14. Retrieved December 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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