Biography
Overview (1)
| Nickname | Whyte Thorne |
Mini Bio (1)
British writer Richard Whiteing was born in 1840 in London, the son of an Inland Revenue Officer and a mother who died when he was a child. He had three siblings--a sister who died in infancy and two brothers.
He published his first novel, "The Democracy", in 1876 under the name Whyte Thorne. He didn't achieve much success as a writer until his third novel, "No. 5 John Street", in 1899 (it was made into a film, No. 5 John Street (1921)).
In 1869 he married Helen Harris, whose father Townsend Harris was the first American ambassador to Japan. They had one child, a son Richard.
Richard Whiteing died in Hampstead, England, in 1928 at age 88.
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Spouse (1)
| Helen Harris | (1869 - ?) ( divorced) ( 1 child) |
