Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn - Paperbackby S. Frederick Starr (Editor) Lafcadio Hearn (1850 1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's Magazine he