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Albert Kinross (1870-1929) was an English journalist, magazine editor and writer of novels, stories and articles.〔Mitchel P. Roth, James Stuart Olson. ''Historical Dictionary of War Journalism'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997. (Pg. 168 )〕〔Adriane Ruggiero. ''World War I'', Marshall Cavendish, Mar 1, 2003. (Pg. 15 )〕〔William Henry Hills, Robert Luce. ''The Writer, Volume 17'', 1905. (Pg. 206 )〕 Kinross was born in London, 4 July 1870.〔 He worked and published in many of the most popular periodicals of his day including ''The Boston Evening Transcript'' (as London correspondent 1896-1898), ''London Outlook'' (as associate editor 1898-1900), ''The London Morning Post'' (as dramatic critic for two years); as well as articles in the ''Century'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''The Pall Mall Magazine'', ''Overland Monthly'', ''New Outlook'', ''The Windsor Magazine'', ''Atlantic Monthly'' and ''The Strand Magazine''.〔 He was a special correspondent in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905-06, an investigative reporter during turn of the century debates over immigration, art critic, book reviewer and political reporter.〔 In 1907 he gave up journalism and became a full-time novelist.〔 During WWI, Kinross returned to his roots in journalism serving as a captain in France and the Middle East, where he set up the ''Balkan News'' and ''Palestine News'' for the military.〔 In 1917, he wrote a piece for the ''Atlantic Monthly'' called "Torpedoed" in which he described his experience aboard a ship that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.〔Albert Kinross. "Torpedoed" in ''Atlantic Monthly'', December 1917, (Vol. 120, pg. 852-61 ).〕 Kinross died of pneumonia on 19 March 1929 at Tunbridge Wells. ==Bibliography== *''A Game of Consequences'' (1896) *''The Fearsome Island'' (1896) *''An Opera and Lady Grasmere'' (1899) *''Philbrick Howell'' (1901) *''The Early Stars'' (1901) *''Within the Radius'' (1901) *''The Way Back'' (1903) *''The Land of Every Man'' (1907) *''Davenant'' (1907) *''Joan of Garioch'' (1908) *''The Love-brokers'' (1909) *''The Fortunes of Virginia Bright'' (1915) *''The Truth About Vignolles'' (1922) *''God and Tony Hewitt'' (1925) *''The Torch'' (1925) *''At the Cenotaph'' (1928) *''An Unconventional Cricketer'' (1930) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Kinross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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