Wolfville Nights

by Alfred Henry Lewis

Overview

Pining for a stiff dose of classic Western humor? Dive into Wolfville Nights from author Alfred Henry Lewis. This loosely intertwined connection of yarns, legends, episodes and escapades is packed with local color and will leave you howling with laughter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783842498624
Publisher:	tredition
Publication date:	02/06/2012
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	992 KB

About the Author

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 - December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer. He began his career as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald.

During the late 19th century, he wrote muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. This was the subject of his book The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York, which focused on the Tammany Hall society of the 18th century. He also wrote biographies of Irish-American politician Richard Croker (1843-1922), and of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.

As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were in his Wolfville series of Western fiction, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914.