Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo (????) after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known to the Japanese for his collections of Japanese legends, one of which was made into a film by Masaki Kobayashi (Kwaidan (1965)).

Further reading

• Bisland, Elizabeth, The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (2 vols., 1906)
• Bronner, Milton, Editor, Letters from the Raven: Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin (1907)
• Cott, Jonathan, Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn (1991)
• Gould, G. M., Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908)
• Kennard, Nina H., Lafcadio Hearn; containing some letters from Lafcadio Hearn to his half-sister, Mrs. Atkinson (1912)
• Starr, S. Frederick, Editor, Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (2001)