Background
Harvey, Alexander was born on December 25, 1868 in Brussels, Belgium. Son of Alexander and Bridget Maria, (Canavan) H.
Harvey, Alexander was born on December 25, 1868 in Brussels, Belgium. Son of Alexander and Bridget Maria, (Canavan) H.
Came to America with parents at 2 years of age. Public school education.
Reporter, Philadelphia Press, 1892, New York Evening Telegram, 1893. Editor Irving Bacheller’s Newspaper Syndicate, 1893-1895, Twentieth Century, 1895-1898. Secretary to diplomatic agent and counsel-general, of the United States in Egypt, 1898-1899.
Assistant Sunday editor of New York Herald, 1900.
Foreign editor, Literary Digest, 1901-1905. Associate editor Current Opinion, 1905-1922.
Associate editor American Monthly, 1923-1929, Author: The Toe and other stories, 1913. William Dean Howells, 1917.
Shelley’s Elopement, 1919.
Essays on Sophocles, 1922. Essays on Euripides, 1923. Oedipus, 1923; Essays on Jesus, 1924.
Friends of Jesus, 1925.
Iphigenia, 1925; The Bacchantes, 1926. Love Life of Hellenic Heroines, 1927.
Home: 314 Washington Avenue, Dumont, New Jersey.
Married Eva Augusta Schubert, 1895 (died 1946).