It was through the Bacheller Syndicate that he brought to American readers the writings of British authors such as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling.

He also established a working partnership with the young author and journalist Stephen Crane, whose novel The Red Badge of Courage became famous after it appeared in syndication.

Although he was appointed Sunday editor of the New York World in 1898, he soon chose to pursue a full-time career as a fiction writer and two years later left journalism for a while.

Bacheller had a major role in the development of Rollins College when, in 1925, he was named head of a search committee to find a new president for the school.

In 1940, with Holt still president, Rollins College announced the creation of a professorship of creative writing in Irving Bacheller's name.