10 Facts About Henry Harland

Henry Harland was an American novelist and editor.

Henry Harland was raised in New York and, after the Civil War, the Harlands lived in a German Jewish section of the city.

Henry Harland attended the City College of New York and briefly Harvard Divinity School.

Henry Harland's novels written under this persona in the 1880s became the first popularly-read books to feature the American Jewish experience, which Harland both celebrated and criticized.

Henry Harland's depictions were met with wide criticism from the Jewish community.

Henry Harland began writing under his own name and, in 1894, became the founding editor of The Yellow Book.

Henry Harland finally achieved a wide readership with The Cardinal's Snuff-box, which was followed by The Lady Paramount and My Friend Prospero.

Henry Harland spoke quite like the caricatured Englishman of our comedy stage.

Henry Harland is completely expatriated now and unpleasantly aggressive in his defense of England and English ways.

Henry Harland died in 1905 at Sanremo, Italy, after a prolonged period of tuberculosis.