Background
Ripley Hitchcock was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1857. His father was surgeon Alfred Hitchcock (1813-1874).
Ripley Hitchcock was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1857. His father was surgeon Alfred Hitchcock (1813-1874).
He graduated from Harvard University in 1877. He attended lectures at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons for one year.
He edited the works of Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Zane Grey, Joel Chandler Harris, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser. After his graduation, he was a special student at Harvard in fine arts and philosophy. He started work as a journalist for The New York Tribune in 1882.
In 1890, he became literary adviser for Doctorate. Appleton & Company, in which capacity he edited Edward Noyes Westcott"s narrative David Harum (1898) into a bestseller, later made into a film.
From 1902 to 1906, he worked for A. South. Barnes as vice president He unfanged Stephen Crane"s lewd details and Theodore Dreiser"s irony.
He also wrote books on art and the history of the West and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Century Association and the Authors Club.