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Irwin (WILLIAM HENRY an American)

WILLIAM HENRY, an American journalist, writing under the name of Will Irwin, born in Oneida, N.

Y. in 1873, brother of Wallace Irwin.

He graduated from Stanford University in 1899. He acted as editor for several papers in San Francisco in 1906-7 and was managing editor of "McClure's Magazine." From 1908 he was a magazine writer. He acted as war correspondent during the World War for American and British papers and magazines. He was a member of the executive committee for the Commission for Relief in Belgium, in 1914-15. In 1918 he acted as chief of the foreign department on the Committee of Public Information. In addition to his war correspondence, he published several novels. His published writings include "The City that Was" (1907); "Old Chinatown" (1908); "The House of Mystery" (1910); "The Red Button" (1912); "The Splendid Story of Ypres" (1915).