Editing David Graham Phillips (section)

==Death==
On the morning of January 23, 1911, Phillips was outside the [[Princeton Club]] at [[Gramercy Park]] in [[New York City]] when he was shot six times at close range by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a [[Harvard]]-educated musician.<ref name=":0" /> Goldsborough, a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, hailed from a prominent family in [[Maryland]] . His fascination with Phillips's work culminated in an obsession, particularly regarding the author's portrayal of the character Margaret Severance in the novel “The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig”, which Goldsborough believed to be a caricature of his sister, Julia Goldsborough. Following the incident, Phillips was admitted to [[Bellevue Hospital]], where he died a day later, on January 24, 1911.<ref name=":0" />

Phillips developed a substantial body of work before his death, encompassing twenty-two novels, numerous articles, short stories, and plays. After his passing, his sister Carolyn took the initiative to organize his final manuscript for posthumous publication under the title “Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise.” This book generated considerable controversy, as it presented the narrative of a woman compelled into prostitution for survival.<ref name=":2" /> In 1931, that book would be made into an [[MGM]] motion picture of the [[Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)|same name]] and starring [[Greta Garbo]] and [[Clark Gable]]. Additional novels released posthumously included  “The Price She Paid” (1912), “George Helm” (1912), and “Degarmo's Wife and Other Stories” (1913). Furthermore, the book versions of “The Treason of the Senate” (1953) and “Contemporaries” (1981) were also published after Phillips's death.<ref name=":2" />

David Graham Phillips is interred in the [[Kensico Cemetery]] in [[Valhalla, New York]].