Known as Will Irwin. American author, writer and journalist. He started as a humorist but moved on to war reporting and writing on serious subjects: including the famous critical analyses of American journalism titled "The American Newspaper" ( a series in Collier's Magazine, 1911). His wife was the novelist-journalist Inez Haynes Gillmore
WorksEdit
- Stanford Stories (1904) with Charles K. Field
- The Picaroons (1904) with Gelett Burgess
- The City That Was; A Requiem of Old San Francisco (booklet based on the article in The Sun, April 21, 1906) (transcription project)
- Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures (1908)
- The Confessions of a Con Man as Told to Will Irwin (1909) (transcription project)
- The Readjustment (1910)
- The House of Mystery (1910)
- The American Newspaper (1911) fourteen articles
- The Next War an appeal to common sense (1921) (transcription project)
- Youth Rides West (1925)
- The House That Shadows Built (1928) history of Paramount Pictures and its founder, Adolph Zukor
- Herbert Hoover (1928) biography
- The Making of a Reporter (1942) autobiography
Short works from magazinesEdit
- "The Bubble of Dreams" (1907, American Magazine)
- "Buckskin Joe" (1910, Collier's Weekly)
- "Columbine Time" (1921, Saturday Evening Post)
- "The First Ward Ball" (1908, Collier's Weekly)
- "La Sorda of Seville" (1920, Harper's Magazine)
- "The Practical Joker" (1916, Saturday Evening Post)
- "What's Wrong with the Associated Press" (1914, Harper's Weekly)
- "The Woman Inside" (1920, Saturday Evening Post)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1948, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 74 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
