The New International Encyclopædia/Murray, David Christie

MURRAY, David Christie (1847—  ). An English novelist, born at West Bromwich, in Staffordshire, April 13, 1847. He was educated at a private school. He began his career as a reporter on the Birmingham Morning News, and in 1873 went to London, where he joined the staffs of the Daily News and the World. In 1879 he published in Chambers's Journal his first long novel, A Life of Atonement. Other books, are: Joseph's Coat (1881); Val Strange (1882); Time's Revenge (1893); In Direst Peril (1894); A Rogue's Conscience (1890): Tales in Prose and Verse (1898); A Race for Millions (1898); many other novels; and the interesting essay, My Contemporaries in Fiction (1897).