Frank Harris
Confessional
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Frank Harris (1855-1931) was an Irish-born editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher who was on friendly terms with many of the leading figures of his day. Aged 12 he was sent to Wales to attend boarding school but was so unhappy there he ran away within a year and headed for America, arriving in New York City virtually penniless in 1869. Here he took on a series of jobs to support himself, including boot black, general labourer and construction worker on the Brooklyn Bridge, before moving to Chicago where he worked in hotels. After making the acquaintance of various cattlemen he was inspired to take up work as a cowboy b…
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Frank Harris (1855-1931) was an Irish-born editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher who was on friendly terms with many of the leading figures of his day. Aged 12 he was sent to Wales to attend boarding school but was so unhappy there he ran away within a year and headed for America, arriving in New York City virtually penniless in 1869. Here he took on a series of jobs to support himself, including boot black, general labourer and construction worker on the Brooklyn Bridge, before moving to Chicago where he worked in hotels. After making the acquaintance of various cattlemen he was inspired to take up work as a cowboy but later enrolled at the University of Kansas to study law. He soon tired of his legal career and returned to England in 1882, having decided to turn to literature. He later travelled to various cities in Continental Europe before returning to London where he became editor of a series of papers including the Evening News and the Saturday Review. From 1908-14 he concentrated on working as a novelist but returned to the US at the outbreak of WWI where he edited Pearson's Magazine, becoming a US citizen in 1921. The following year he travlled to Berlin to publish his best-known work, his autobiography My Life and Loves (published in 4 vols. 1922-27), which is notorious for its graphic descriptions of his purported sexual encounters and for its exaggeration of the scope of his adventures and his role in history. Confessional is a collection of essays first published in 1930 which is divided into four parts: People, Places, Principles, and Passions.
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- ISBN: 978-1-4068-0058-6
- EAN: 9781406800586
- Produktnummer: 2539859
- Verlag: Echo Library
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.5 cm 142 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 142
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Frank Harris (14 February 1855 - 26 August 1931) was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States early in life, working in a variety of unskilled jobs before attending the University of Kansas to read (study) law. After graduation, he quickly tired of his legal career and returned to Europe in 1882. He traveled on continental Europe before settling in London to pursue a career in journalism. In 1921, in his sixties, he became a US citizen. Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness.Harris was born James Thomas Harris in 1855, in Galway, Ireland, to Welsh parents. His father, Thomas Vernon Harris, was a naval officer from Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.[1] While living with his older brother he was, for a year or more, a pupil at The Royal School, Armagh. At the age of 12 he was sent to Wales to continue his education as a boarder at the Ruabon Grammar School in Denbighshire, a time he was to remember later in My Life and Loves. Harris was unhappy at the school and ran away within a year.Harris ran away to the United States in late 1869, arriving in New York City virtually penniless.[2] The 13-year-old took a series of odd jobs to support himself, working first as a boot black, a porter, a general laborer, and a construction worker on the erection of the Brooklyn Bridge.[2] Harris would later turn these early occupational experiences into art, incorporating tales from them into his book The Bomb.[2]From New York Harris moved to the American Midwest, settling in the country's second largest city, Chicago,[2] where he took a job as a hotel clerk and eventually a manager. Owing to Chicago's central place in the meat packing industry, Harris made the acquaintance of various cattlemen, who inspired him to leave the big city to take up work as a cowboy.[2] Harris eventually grew tired of life in the cattle industry and enrolled at the University of Kansas,[2] where he studied law and earned a degree, gaining admission to the Kansas state bar association
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