William James Stillman

William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 – July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman past converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a feat correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he afterward served as United States consul in Rome, and taking into account in Crete during the Cretan insurrections. He helped to train the pubertal Arthur Evans as a dogfight correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans. Later in life, he seriously considered taking higher than the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from supplementary excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal supplementary by a failure to get your hands on a firman, or right of entry to excavate. Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer.