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Phillips' reputation cost him his life in January 1911, when he was shot outside the Princeton Club at Gramercy Park in New York City. The killer was a Harvard -educated musician named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra who came from a prominent Maryland family.
- October 31, 1867, Madison, Indiana, U.S.
- Kensico Cemetery
- Murdered by shooting
Jan 14, 2011 · One hundred years ago, a libel accusation leveled at a famous novelist ended in the most spectacular crime in American literary history.
- Peter Duffy
Jun 23, 2022 · The victim whose death gave birth to the strictest gun restrictions in the nation was identified by police as David Graham Phillips, a 43-year-old novelist who had been gaining increasing...
Jan 23, 2011 · On Jan. 23, 1911, a novelist, David Graham Phillips, was shot by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough in a brazen early afternoon attack on East 21st Street (or, as it is known today, Gramercy Park...
Jun 23, 2022 · 1911 murder of NYC novelist David Graham Phillips, 43, led to the strictest gun restrictions in the nation. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday striking down century-old New York law. The...
- Andrea Cavallier
Jan 23, 2024 · Phillips was killed because someone took exception to one of his novels. Two months after the Supreme Court overturned Sullivan, Salman Rushdie was attacked by a man in Chautauqua, New York. His assailant was armed with a knife; Rushdie lost the use of one eye and one hand. But he survived.
Jan 23, 2024 · A Pulitzer Prize–winning author probes the murder of a colleague. Edith Wharton was no admirer of David Graham Phillips. She found the journalist’s dress affected and his opinions overzealous. But the day after their one and only meeting, the muckraker is shot to death near Gramercy Park, and the novelist’s curiosity is decidedly piqued.
