Harold Frederic (born Harold Henry Frederick; August 19, 1856 – October 19, 1898)[1] was an American journalist and novelist.
Frederic wrote several early stories, but it was not until he published Illumination (1896), better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware, followed by Gloria Mundi (1898), that his talent as a novelist was fully realized. Critic Jonathan Yardley called Damnation “a minor classic of realism”.[2]
