Writing
Alexander Black began his career as a newspaper journalist and editor, and later authored books ranging from photography instruction to local history, and finally novels.
His first project was a self-published magazine which he wrote and typeset himself, starting at the age of twelve, using a home made letterpress made for him by his father.
His love of writing became the through-line of his career, culminating in his autobiography, Time and Chance; Adventures with People and Print.
Many of his books can be found digitized: Alexander Black on Archive.org
Bibliography
The Story of Ohio (The Story of the States series), 1888, D Lothrop Co., Boston
Photography Indoors and Out; A Book for Amateurs, 1893, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York.
Miss Jerry, 1895, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
A Capital Courtship, 1897, Charles Scribner’s sons, New York
Miss America; Pen and Camera Sketches of the American Girl, 1898, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
Modern Daughters; Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man, 1899, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
Captain Kodak; A Camera Story, 1899, Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston
The Girl and the Guardsman, 1900, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
Richard Gordon, 1902, Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston
Thorney, 1913, McBride, Nast & Co., New York
The Great Desire, 1919, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London
The Latest Thing and Other Things, 1922, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London
Jo Ellen, 1923, Harper & Brothers, New York and London
Stacey, 1925, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis
Time and Chance; Adventures with People and Print, 1937 (autobiography)
Articles by Alexander Black
Articles by Alexander Black, Harper’s magazine, 1898-1920s
“Photography in Fiction: Miss Jerry, the First Picture Play”, Scribner’s magazine v.18, 1895
“The Amateur Photographer” The Century Magazine, September 1887
“The Camera and the Comedy” Scribners, November 1896
“The Last of the Great” The Century Magazine, September 1921