In the Valley (Esprios Classics)

Harold Frederic (born Harold Henry Frederick; August 19 1856 - October 19 1898) was an American journalist and novelist. He finished school at age fifteen and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up artist in his hometown and in Boston. In 1875 he began work as a proofreader for the newspaper The Utica Herald and then The Utica Daily Observer. Frederic later became a reporter. Frederic married Grace Green Williams in 1877 and they had five children together. By 1882 he was editor of the newspaper The Albany Evening Journal in the state capital.