Ripley Hitchcock
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 Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1857.[1] His father was surgeon Alfred Hitchcock (1813-1874). He graduated from Harvard University in 1877. After his graduation, he was a special student at Harvard in fine arts and philosophy. He attended lectures at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons for one year.[2]
He started work as a journalist for The New York Tribune in 1882. In 1890, he became literary adviser for D. Appleton & Company, in which capacity he edited Edward Noyes Westcott's narrative David Harum (1898) into a bestseller, later made into a film. From 1902 to 1906, he worked for A. S. Barnes as vice president. From 1906 onwards, he worked as an editor for Harper and Brothers.[1] He unfanged Stephen Crane's lewd details and Theodore Dreiser's irony.[3]
He also wrote books on art and the history of the West and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Century Association and the Authors Club.[1]
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
- ^ a b c d Wertheim, Stanley. A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, page 155
- ^ 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
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