Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic (1856-1898) was an American journalist, foreign correspondent, and novelist. He was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. He wrote several early stories, ranging from the American Revolution to the Civil War, butit was not until he published Illumination in 1896, better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware, followed by Gloria Mundi in 1898, that his gifts as a novelist were fully realized.