Educated at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1883, Fox moved to New York City and worked as a reporter for the New York Times and the New York Sun. In 1892, he published his first novel, A Mountain Europa, which appeared as a serialization in Century Magazine. In 1898, he published The Kentuckians, which was very successful. Fox served with Theodore Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and acted as a war correspondent for Harper's Weekly. In 1905, he had a similar assignment from Scribner's magazine when he covered the Russo-Japanese War. In 1908, he published his best-known work, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, a best-seller which was also filmed both in the silent era of 1916 and again in 1936. Fox drew on his experiences from Kentucky and Virginia in much of his work, which included Crittenden (1900), Blue Grass and Rhododendron (1901), The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903), Following the Sun Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria (1905), A Knight of the Cumberland (1906), The Heart of the Hills (1913), In Happy Valley (1917) and Erskine Dale (1920 posthumous). |
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