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Richard Whiteing ( 27 July 1840 - 29 June 1928), English author and journalist. ==Biography== Richard Whiteing was born in London the son of Mary Lander and William Whiteing, a civil servant employed as an Inland Revenue Officer. His mother died early and Richard claimed to have spent much of his upbringing with foster parents. For seven years in his youth Whiteing was apprenticed to Benjamin Wyon as a medalist and seal-engraver; meanwhile he was also educating himself on the side. In 1866, after a failed attempt to start his own medalist business, he turned to journalism as a career. He made his debut with a series of papers in the ''Evening Star'' in 1866, printed separately in the next year as ''Mr Sprouts, His Opinions''. He became leader-writer and correspondent on the ''Morning Star'', and was subsequently on the staff of the ''Manchester Guardian'', the ''New York World'', and for many years the ''Daily News'', resigning from the last-named paper in 1899. His first novel ''The Democracy'' (3 vols, 1876) was published under the pseudonym of Whyte Thorne. His second novel ''The Island'' (1888) was about a utopian life on Pitcairn Island; it attracted little attention until, years afterwards, its successor, ''No. 5 John Street'' (1899), made him famous; the earlier novel was then republished. ''No. 5 John Street'' has the character from the first novel return to London, but has no money, and describes the low-life of London. Later works were ''The Yellow Van'' (1903), ''Ring in the New'' (1906), ''All Moonshine'' (1907). Whiteing died 29 June 1928 in Hampstead and is buried in the Parish Church of St. John-at-Hampstead, Church Row, London near his son Richard Clifford (1870-1923). 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「Richard Whiteing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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