Author: John Douglas Delille
Author: John Douglas Delille (1861–1890)
Biography: John Douglas Delille was born in 1861 in Paris, the son of American journalist Henry Alfred Delille and novelist Olive Logan. He spent his childhood in New York and Texas and was educated in England. At the age of fifteen, he was already contributing to periodicals and later joined the staff of the Critic and Once a Week. Fluent in French, he also contributed to a number of French periodicals. Following his mother, Delille wrote a novel Canon Lucifer (1887) and a popular play In the Queen's Name (1888). In 1887, he married Alice Carpenter. He died suddenly of typhoid fever on 13 November 1890 in Bristol where he was serving as American consul. All his obituaries lauded him as a remarkable man with one adding "Jack Delille, as his friends loved to call him, was the handsomest journalist in London, and he was the truest, staunchest firend of all who knew him."
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References: American Register (3 January 1891); Evening News (15 November 1890); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Canon Lucifer: A Novel on an English Social Aspect. 1 vol. London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1887.