The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I

The Autobiography of a Journalist is a biography of a journalist written in 2 volumes by William James Stillman, an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. and educated as an artist.

Author's Preface:

That a man should assume that his life is worth the venture of a record in the form of an autobiography suggests a degree of self-conceit of which I am not guilty. From my own initiative this would never have been written, and the first suggestion that I should write it, coming from a man of such experience in books and judgment of men as the late Mr. Houghton, then head of the firm of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., was as much a surprise to me as the publication will be to any one. The impression it made on me was so vivid that I have never forgotten the details of the occasion which called it out.