Everything about David Graham Phillips totally explained
David Graham Phillips (
October 31,
1867 –
January 24,
1911), was an American journalist and novelist.
Early life and career
Phillips was born in
Madison, Indiana. After graduating high school Phillips entered
Asbury College following which he degreed from
College of New Jersey in 1887.
After completing his education, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in
Cincinnati, Ohio before moving on to
New York City where he was employed as a reporter for
The Sun (New York) from 1890 to 1893, then columnist and editor with the
New York World until 1902. In his spare time, he wrote a novel,
The Great God Success that was published in 1901. The royalty income enabled him to work as a freelance journalist while continuing to write fiction. Writing articles for various prominent magazines, he began to develop a reputation as a competent investigative journalist. Phillips' novels often commented on social issues of the day and frequently chronicled events based on his real-life journalistic experiences. He was considered a
Progressive and a
muckraker.
Phillips wrote an article in
Cosmopolitan in April 1906, called "
The Treason of the Senate", exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the
Senate. The story launched a scathing attack on
Rhode Island senator
Nelson W. Aldrich, and brought Phillips a great deal of national exposure. This and other similar articles led to the creation of the
17th Amendment.
Death
Phillips' reputation cost him his life in January 1911, when he was shot and killed outside the Princeton Club in New York City. The assassin was a musician who believed that Phillips' novel,
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig, had cast literary aspersions on his family. A 1992 novel by Daniel D. Victor, "The Seventh Bullet," imagines an investigation into Phillips' murder by Sherlock Holmes.
Following Phillips' death, his sister Carolyn organized his final manuscript for posthumous publication as
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise. In 1931, that book would be made into an
MGM motion picture of the same name starring
Greta Garbo and
Clark Gable.
He is interred in the
Kensico Cemetery in
Valhalla, New York.
Literature
- F. T. Cooper, Some American Story-Tellers, (New York, 1911)
- J. C. Underwood, Literature and Insurgency, (New York, 1914)
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