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(1862-1919) Novelist. John Fox, Jr. worked as a reporter for the New York Times and the New York Sun, in New York City.

Full Name

John Fox Jr

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1862

BIRTH

John Fox, Jr. was born in Stony Point, Kentucky on December 16, 1862.

1883

OTHER

Fox moved to New York City and worked for a short time as a reporter for the New York Times and the New York Sun.

1895

LITWORK

A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories


Short stories.

1897

LITWORK

Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories


Short stories.

1898

LITWORK

The Kentuckians


Novel.

1898

OTHER

Worked as a war correspondent for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1899

LITWORK

A Mountain Europa


Novel.

1900

LITWORK

Crittenden

1903

LITWORK

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Com


Novel.

1904

OTHER

Travelled to the Orient for Scriber's magazine to report on the Russo-Japanese War.

1908

LITWORK

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Charles Scribner's Sons.

Novel.

1908

OTHER

Marries Austrian opera singer Fritzi Scheff. The marriage lasts just over four years and produces no children.

1917

LITWORK

In Happy Valley

1919

DEATH

John Fox, Jr. died of pneumonia in Big Stone Gap, Virginia on July 8, 1919.

1919

INTERMENT

John Fox, Jr. is buried in his family plot of the Paris Cemetery in Paris, Kentucky.

1920

LITWORK

Erskin Dale

1967

LITWORK

A Purple Rhododendron and Other Stories


Short stories.

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