Author
Charles Romeyn Dake
American writer and physician
1849
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1899
genre: adventure novel
country of citizenship: United States of America
language of expression: English
educated at: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
occupation: novelist, homeopath, writer
Charles Romeyn Dake (December 22, 1849 – 1899) was a 19th-century American homeopathic physician and writer. He was an 1873 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he practiced in Belleville, Illinois. In 1893 he became editor of the journal Homeopathic News.
Dake published two short stories and one novel, A Strange Discovery, which is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. As an author, his name is sometimes spelled Charles Romyn Dake.
In early 1899 he discovered that he had lung cancer and committed suicide.
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