Cleveland Moffett (April 27, 1863 – October 14, 1926)
was an American journalist, author, and playwright.
Cleveland was born in
Boonville, New York
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, the son of William Henry Moffett and Mary Jane (Cleveland). After an education at
St. Paul's School in
Garden City, New York
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, he
matriculated
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Australia
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at
Yale College
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in
Connecticut
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, graduating in 1883.
In 1887, he joined the staff of the ''
New York Herald
The ''New York Herald'' was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924. At that point it was acquired by its smaller rival the ''New-York Tribune'' to form the '' New York Herald Tribune''.
His ...
'', where he worked until 1892. Until 1891,
his time at the Herald was spent as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Asia, where he had the opportunity to perform interviews with prominent leaders. In 1893, he became foreign editor of the ''
New York Recorder''.
On February 11, 1899, he was married to Mary E. Lusk. From 1908–1909, he worked as Sunday editor for the Herald.
During his journalism career he contributed articles and stories to magazines and weeklies. In 1894, he translated ''Cosmopolis'', an 1892 novel by French author
Paul Bourget
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (; 2 September 185225 December 1935) was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Life
Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme ''département'' of P ...
. His mystery short ''The mysterious card'' was published in the Boston-based
The Black Cat in 1895. This work had the novelty of not revealing the answer to the puzzle posed, thereby gaining widespread attention;
it was followed up a year later by ''The mysterious card revealed''.
In addition to serialized short stories, he also wrote several plays, including ''Money talks'' (1905) and ''The battle'' (1908). The latter was a dramatization of his 1907 novel, ''A king in rags''.
Many of his works were set in locations outside the United States.
Bibliography
* ''The mysterious card''
(1895) (Short Story)
* ''The mysterious card revealed'' (1896) (Short Story)
* ''True tales from the archives of the Pinkertons''
(1897) (6 Short Stories)
* ''Real detective stories''
(1898)
* ''Careers of danger and daring''
(1901)
* ''Money Talks''
(1905)
* ''Esther Frear''
(1906) with Félicien Pascal
* ''Playing the game''
(1906) with Hartley Davis
* ''A king in rags''
(1907)
* ''The battle''
(1908)
* ''Through the wall''
(1909)
* ''Greater than the law''
(1912)
* ''The Bishop's purse''
(1913) with Oliver Herford
* ''The conquest of America: a romance of disaster and recovery'' (1916)
* ''Possessed'' (1920)
* ''Glint of wings; the story of a modern girl who wanted her liberty—and got it'' (1922) with Virginia Hall
* ''The Seine mystery''
(1925)
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1863 births
1926 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American newspaper journalists
People from Boonville, New York
Novelists from New York (state)
Yale College alumni
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American translators
American male dramatists and playwrights
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers