Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), European-born American author, wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose. Lafcadio Hearn was born June 27, 1850, on the Greek island of Santa Maura. His mother was Maltese and his...

At the turn of the century Lafcadio Hearn was considered one of the finest prose stylists in the United States. His enormous output ranges from early articles written for Cincinnati newspapers to a series of volumes on Japan, the country where he spent...

Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn led an exotic and restless life from his birth on an island off the coast of Greece until his death in Japan fifty-four years later. He lived in loneliness in Ireland, England, and France as a child. He spent two...

Nearly a century after his death, Lafcadio Hearn is widely unknown. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) is being republished this year, but much of Hearn's work is out of print, and it's hard to find Hearn on library shelves or...

Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials. By Lafcadio Hearn. Ed. Simon J. Bronner. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. x + 242, bibliography, illustrations, index.) By editing this volume of Lafcadio Ream's essays on American culture, Simon Bronner has done a...