{{short description|American journalist}} {{redirect|Dan Quin|other people with similar names|Daniel Quinn (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox person | image = Alfred Henry Lewis (1855–1914).png | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|01|20}} | birth_place = [[Cleveland]], Ohio, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|12|23|1855|01|20}} | death_place = [[Manhattan]], New York, US | burial_place = [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] | occupation = {{flatlist| * Journalist * writer * editor }} | known_for = {{Plainlist| * Investigative journalism * ''Wolfville'' books }} }}
'''Alfred Henry Lewis''' (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American [[investigative journalist]], [[lawyer]], [[novelist]], [[editor]], and [[short story]] writer,<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-dec-24-1914-4718634/ |title=Alfred H. Lewis, Author, is Dead |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=9 |date=December 24, 1914 |access-date=2024-10-15 |via=NewspaperArchive}}</ref> who sometimes published under the pseudonym '''Dan Quin'''.<ref name=Marquis>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/680 Marquis Who's Who in America], 1902, at [[archive.org]]</ref>
==Career== Lewis began as a [[staff writer]] at the ''[[Chicago Times]]'', and eventually became editor of the ''[[Chicago Times-Herald]]''.<ref name="spartacus"/> By the late 19th century he was writing [[muckraker]] articles for ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]''. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about [[Political corruption|corruption]] in New York politics.<ref name="spartacus">{{Cite web |url = http://www.spartacus-educational.com/USAlewisAH.htm |title = Alfred Henry Lewis |publisher = Spartacus Educational |accessdate = 14 December 2013}}</ref> In 1901 he published a biography of [[Richard Croker]] (1843–1922), a leading figure in the corrupt [[political machine]] known as [[Tammany Hall]], which exercised a great deal of control over New York politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
As a writer of [[genre fiction]], his most successful works were [[Western fiction|Western]]s from his ''Wolfville'' series, which he continued writing until he died of [[gastrointestinal disease]] at his home in Manhattan on December 23, 1914.<ref name=NYTObit/> He was buried at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in The Bronx.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-lewis-funeral-simple/157188365/ |title=Lewis Funeral Simple |newspaper=[[New-York Tribune]] |page=9 |date=1914-12-25 |access-date=2024-10-15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Bibliography== ===Non-fiction=== * ''[[:c:File:Richard Croker (IA cu31924067151989).pdf|Richard Croker]]'' (1901) * ''Nation-famous New York Murders'' (1914)
===Novels and short story collections=== {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''[[:c:File:Wolfville (IA cu31924022161859).pdf|Wolfville: Episodes of Cowboy Life]]'' (1893) * ''[[:c:File:Sandburrs (short stories) (IA cu31924022198067).pdf|Sandburrs]]'' (1900) * ''[[:c:File:Wolfville days (IA wolfvilledays00lewiiala).pdf|Wolfville Days]]'' (1902) * ''Wolfville Nights'' (1902) * ''[[:c:File:The Black Lion inn (IA blacklion00lewirich).pdf|The Black Lion Inn]]'' (1903) * ''[[:c:File:The boss, and how he came to rule New York (IA thebossrulesny00lewirich).pdf|The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York]]'' (1903) * ''[[:c:File:Peggy O'Neal (IA peggyoneal00lewiiala).pdf|Peggy O'Neal]]'' (1903) * ''[[:c:File:The president - a novel (IA president00lewirich).pdf|The President]]'' (1904) * ''[[:c:File:The sunset trail (IA sunsettrail00lewirich).pdf|The Sunset Trail]]'' (1905) * ''Confessions of a Detective'' (1906) * ''[[:c:File:The story of Paul Jones - an historical romance (IA storyofpaul00lewirich).pdf|The Story of Paul Jones]]'' (1906) * ''[[:c:File:The throwback - a romance of the Southwest (IA throwback00lewirich).pdf|The Throwback]]'' (1906) * ''[[:c:File:When men grew tall, or the story of Andrew Jackson (IA whenmengrewtall00lewirich).pdf|When Men Grew Tall; or, The Story of Andrew Jackson]]'' (1907) * ''[[:c:File:An American patrician; or, The story of Aaron Burr (IA americanpatrician00lewirich).pdf|An American Patrician; or, The Story of Aaron Burr]]'' (1908) * ''[[:c:File:Wolfville folks (IA wolfvillefolks00lewirich).pdf|Wolfville Folks]]'' (1908) * ''[[:c:File:The Apaches of New York (IA apachesofnewyork00lewiiala).pdf|The Apaches of New York]]'' (1912) * ''Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories'' (1913) }}
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==External links== {{Commons category}} {{wikisource|works=or|Alfred Henry Lewis}} * {{IMDb name|0506906}} * {{Gutenberg author|id=1257 |name=Alfred Henry Lewis}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Alfred Henry Lewis}} * {{Librivox author |id=1742}}
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