Lafcadio Hearn
Hearn, Patrick Lafcadio Tessima Carlos
June 27, 1850 – September 26, 1904 (aged 54)
Birth place: Lefkada, United States of the Ionian Islands
Browse magazine works (first published 1874)
<br> Hearn moved to the US in 1869. As "a literary Columbus" he reported from the West Indies and beginning in 1890 from Japan, where he married, raised a family, and became a subject. --"The Mystic Dream of Lafcadio Hearn", <i>Current Literature</i> 42.1 (January 1907) pp. 49-53; review of Bisland, <i>Life and Letters</i> (Houghton Mifflin)