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Biography of Walter Hines Page
Name: Walter Hines Page
Birth Date: August 15, 1855
Death Date: December 21, 1918
Place of Birth: Cary, North Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: journalist, diplomat
Walter Hines Page
The American journalist and diplomat Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) edited several distinguished periodicals and served as ambassador to Great Britain during World War I.Born in Cary, N.C., on Aug. 15, 1855, Walter Hines Page was educated at Trinity College (now Duke), Randolph-Macon College, and Johns Hopkins University (1871-1878), concentrating his study on the Greek classics. He began his journalistic career in St. Joseph, Mo., as editor of the Gazette (1880-1881). He then published a series of articles based on travels in the South and the West, some appearing in the New York World.In 1883 Page returned to the South, hoping to help modernize the region, but his editorial advocacy of social and political reforms in the State Chronicle of Raleigh, N.C. (1883-1885), aroused local animosity and he went back to New York. As editor of the Forum (1891-1895), Atlantic Monthly (1898-1899), and the World's Work (1900-1913), he became known as a leader of reform. He helped …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…with his lifelong interest in southern development, The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths (1902) and the novel The Southerner (1909), and a third considering his profession, A Publisher's Confession (1905). Further Reading The principal works on Page are by Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page (3 vols., 1922-1925) and The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913 (1928). For Page's relations with a leading British statesman see Sir Edward Grey, Twenty-five Years, 1892-1916 (2 vols., 1925). His changing position in the Wilsonian entourage is traceable in Charles Seymour, ed., The Intimate Papers of Colonel House (4 vols., 1926-1928). See also Ross Gregory, Walter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1970).Cooper, John Milton, Walter Hines Page: the Southerner as American, 1855-1918, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977. Hendrick, Burton Jesse, The training of an American: the earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913, Atlanta, Ga.: Cherokee Pub. Co., 1990.
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