Alfred Henry Lewis

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Dan Quin.

Career
Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. By the late 19th century he was writing muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. In 1901 he published a biography of Richard Croker (1843–1922), a leading figure in the corrupt political machine known as Tammany Hall, which exercised a great deal of control over New York politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.

As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were Westerns from his Wolfville series, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914.

Non-fiction

 * Richard Croker (1901)
 * Nation-famous New York Murders (1914)

Novels and short story collections
• Wolfville: Episodes of Cowboy Life (1893)

• Sandburrs (1900)

• Wolfville Days (1902)

• The Black Lion Inn (1903)

• The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York (1903)

• Peggy O'Neal (1903)

• The President (1904)

• The Sunset Trail (1905)

• Confessions of a Detective (1906)

• When Men Grew Tall; or, The Story of Andrew Jackson (1907)

• An American Patrician; or, The Story of Aaron Burr (1908)

• Wolfville Folks (1908)

• Wolfville Nights (1902)

• The Apaches of New York (1912)

• Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (1913)