Ripley Hitchcock | |
---|---|
Born | James Ripley Wellman Hitchcock July 3, 1857
Fitchburg, Massachusetts |
Died | May 5, 1918
New York, New York | (aged 60)
Occupation(s) | Editor, writer |
Spouses | Martha Barker Wolcott
(
m. 1883; died 1903)Helen Sanborn Sargent
(
m. 1914) |
Children | 2 |
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]
Ripley Hitchcock was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on July 3, 1857. [1] [2] 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. [3]
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. [4]
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]
He married Martha Barker Wolcott on May 23, 1883. She died in 1903, and he remarried to Helen Sanborn Sargent on January 7, 1914. They had two sons. [2]
Ripley Hitchcock died at the Park Avenue Hotel in Manhattan on May 5, 1918. [5]