1. Harold Frederic was an American journalist and novelist.
13 Facts About Harold Frederic
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Harold Frederic's works include In the Valley, The Damnation of Theron Ware, and The Market Place.
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Harold Frederic attended the Methodist church, but was generally skeptical towards religion.
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Harold Frederic finished school at age fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer.
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Harold Frederic married Grace Green Williams in 1877, and they had five children together.
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In 1884, Harold Frederic went to live in England as London correspondent of the New York Times, and worked at this position for the rest of his life.
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Harold Frederic covered topics such as the cholera epidemic in southern Europe, various wars and riots, and the Irish Home Rule movement, which he supported.
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Damnation became a best seller and is Harold Frederic's best known work; critic Jonathan Yardley called it "a minor classic of realism".
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Harold Frederic wrote a range of historical fiction on such topics as the American Revolution and the American Civil War.
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Harold Frederic wrote non-fiction as well, including a study on antisemitism in Russia, The New Exodus, for which he went to Russia to investigate the persecution of the Jewish minority there.
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Kate Lyon was a Christian Scientist and called in a woman healer, who, Harold Frederic said, 'bores my head off.
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Harold Frederic's wife sued him for divorce just before he died.
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Harold Frederic's remains were returned to the United States and he was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.