Alexander Bell Filson Young was a journalist, who published the first book about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, called Titanic, in 1912 only 37 days after the sinking.
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11 Facts About Filson Young
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Filson Young was an essayist, war correspondent in the Boer War and World War I, a programmes advisor to the BBC, and the author of two novels.
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Alexander Bell Filson Young was born in Ireland in 1876, at Ballyeaston, County Antrim.
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Filson Young retained his skill at organ-playing and his interest in music throughout his life, and even wrote a few compositions.
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Filson Young's first publication was A Psychic Vigil, which he issued under the pseudonym, 'X.
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Filson Young edited Outlook, and literary columns in The Saturday Review and the Daily Mail.
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In 1911 Filson Young visited Belfast to see the RMS Titanic under construction; and when it sank in 1912 his book about the disaster appeared little over a month afterwards.
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That year James Joyce's Dubliners was published by Grant Richards; Filson Young had commended the book earlier when working as a reader for Richards.
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Joyce suggested that Filson Young should write an introduction to the work which he preferred not to do.
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Filson Young was at the Battle of Dogger Bank, but left the navy in 1915 before the Battle of Jutland.
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Filson Young wrote the article on David Beatty for the 12th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
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