Julian Ralph

Julian Ralph

Julian Ralph (May 27, 1853 in New York City – January 20, 1903) was a United States author and journalist, most noted for his work on The Sun, a newspaper of New York City.

Biography

At 15 years of age he was a printer's apprentice in New Jersey for the Red Bank Standard where he later became a reporter. Later he was editor of the Webster, Massachusetts, Times. He returned to his hometown of New York City in 1872 where he was a reporter for The World.[1] He joined the staff of the New York Daily Graphic in 1875, but within a year he left it and was on the staff of the New York Sun until 1895, gaining a world-wide reputation as a correspondent. In 1896 he became London correspondent for the New York Journal, was with the Turkish armies during the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, and in 1899 went to South Africa as war correspondent for the London Daily Mail.[2] He was elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1898.[1]

In 1876 he married Isabella Mount.[1]

Works

Besides numerous magazine articles, his publications include:[2]

  • The Sun's German Barber (1883)[1]
  • Dutchman or German (1889)
  • On Canada's Frontier (1892)
  • Chicago and the World's Fair (1893)
  • Our Great West (1893)
  • People We Pass (1895)
  • Dixie (1896)
  • Alone in China (1898)
  • A Prince in Georgia (1899)
  • Toward Pretoria (1900)
  • An American with Lord Roberts (1901)
  • War's Brighter Side (1901)
  • The Millionairess (a novel, 1902)
  • The Making of a Journalist (1903)[1]

Further reading

  • Lancaster, Paul, Gentleman of the Press: The Life and Times of an Early Reporter, Julian Ralph of the Sun, Syracuse University Press, 1992.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1935). "Ralph, Julian". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2. 1 2  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ralph, Julian". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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