Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) was an American journalist, war correspondent and writer of fiction. The son of the novelist Rebecca Harding Davis, he became famous in the 1890s for his reporting and for stories such as Gallegher, and his handsome, adventurous image made him a model for the gallant heroes of the day. He covered the Greco-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War, and wrote popular novels of romance and adventure, including Soldiers of Fortune and The White Mice, often set in Latin America.