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Biography of David Graham Phillips
Name: David Graham Phillips
Birth Date: October 31, 1867
Death Date: January 23, 1911
Place of Birth: Madison, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: journalist
David Graham Phillips
The interests of David Graham Phillips (1867-1911), American journalist and novelist, ranged from the plight of women to corruption in Congress.David Graham Phillips was born on Oct. 31, 1867, in Madison, Ind. During his happy and comfortable childhood he developed especially close ties to his older sister Carolyn. After high school Phillips entered Asbury (DePauw) University, where he roomed with the future U.S. senator Albert J. Beveridge, a man whom Phillips considered a symbol of the success that can come from hard work. When Beveridge graduated, Phillips went to Princeton, where he received a degree in 1887.After college Phillips began working on the staff of the Cincinnati Times-Star. He wrote for a succession of newspapers, culminating his newspaper career as editorial writer for the New York World. His first novel, The Great God Success (1901), published under the pseudonym John Graham, won acclaim from popular critics and encouraged him to leave the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…acquired the title of muckraker. But he had little taste for bucking public opinion and so returned to fiction.On Jan. 23, 1911, Phillips was shot by a mentally ill violinist who believed that Phillips's novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig (1909) had libelously portrayed his family. Phillips died the next day. His sister Carolyn, with whom he had lived for years, prepared his last works for posthumous publication. Further Reading Abe C. Ravitz, David Graham Phillips (1966), is biographical and evaluative. Kenneth S. Lynn's excellent The Dream of Success: A Study of the Modern American Imagination (1955) contains a chapter on Phillips. Isaac F. Marcosson, David Graham Phillips and His Times (1932), remains useful for its account of Phillips's journalistic work. Louis Filler, Crusaders for American Liberalism (1939), describes the whole muckraking movement.Filler, Louis, Voice of the democracy: a critical biography of David Graham Phillips, journalist, novelist, progressive, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978.
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