Julian Ralph
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Julian Ralph (May 27, 1853 – January 20, 1903) was an author and journalist, most noted for his work on The Sun, a newspaper of New York City.
Biography
Julian Ralph was born in New York City on May 27, 1853.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__e0UAAAAYAAJ/page/n19/mode/1up |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |volume=IX |editor1-first=Rossiter |editor1-last=Johnson |editor2-first=John Howard |editor2-last=Brown |publisher=The Biographical Society |location=Boston |page= |year=1904 |access-date=2022-05-25 |via=Internet Archive}} At 15 years of age he was a printer's apprentice in New Jersey for the Red Bank Standard where he later became a reporter. He became editor of the Webster, Massachusetts, Times. He returned to his hometown of New York City in 1872 where he was a reporter for The World.{{Cite DAB|title=Ralph, Julian|year=1935|author=Willard Grosvenor Bleyer}} He joined the staff of the New York Daily Graphic in 1875, but within a year he left it and was on the staff of the New York Sun until 1895, gaining a world-wide reputation as a correspondent. In 1896 he became London correspondent for the New York Journal, was with the Turkish armies during the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, and in 1899 went to South Africa as war correspondent for the London Daily Mail.{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Ralph, Julian|year=1905|short=x|vb=x}} He was elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1898.
In 1876 he married Isabella Mount.
He died at his home in New York City on January 20, 1903.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/70721064/the-new-york-times/ |title=Death of Julian Ralph |newspaper=The New York Times |page=2 |date=1903-01-21 |access-date=2022-05-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Works
File:People We Pass- Stories of Life among the Masses of New York City MET DP823817.jpg poster for People We Pass (1896)]]
Besides numerous magazine articles, his publications include:
- The Sun's German Barber (1883)
- Dutchman or German (1889)
- [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20110215 On Canada's Frontier] (1892)
- Chicago and the World's Fair (1893)
- Our Great West (1893)
- People We Pass (1895)
- Dixie (1896)
- Alone in China (1898)
- A Prince in Georgia (1899)
- Toward Pretoria (1900)
- An American with Lord Roberts (1901)
- War's Brighter Side (1901)
- The Millionairess (a novel, 1902)
- The Making of a Journalist (1903)
References
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Further reading
- Lancaster, Paul, Gentleman of the Press: The Life and Times of an Early Reporter, Julian Ralph of the Sun, Syracuse University Press, 1992.
External links
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- {{Librivox author |id=16444}}
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