J. Rives Childs

James Rives Childs (February 6, 1893 – July 15, 1987) was an American diplomat, a writer and an authority on Giacomo Casanova.

Later, Childs joined the United States Army and worked with British and French forces as a radio intelligence liaison in World War I.

After the war, Childs worked with the American Relief Administration in the Soviet Union.

[3] In 1987, Childs died in Richmond, Virginia, of a cardiac pulmonary infection, aged 94.

[4] Childs wrote 14 books, five of them on the subject of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century Venetian adventurer and libertine.