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Henry Bedford-Jones

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (April 29, 1887 – May 6, 1949) was a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.

Biography

Bedford-Jones was born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada in 1887. His family moved to the United States when he was a teenager and he eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[2] After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer William Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories.[3] Bedford-Jones was an enormously prolific writer; the pulp editor Harold Hersey once recalled meeting Bedford-Jones in Paris, where he was working on two novels simultaneously, each story on its own separate typewriter.[3] Bedford-Jones cited Alexandre Dumas as his main influence, and wrote a sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan (1928).[4] He wrote nearly 200 novels, 400 novelettes, and 800 short stories, earning the nickname "King of the Pulps". His works appeared in a number of pulp magazines. Bedford-Jones' main publisher was Blue Book magazine; he also appeared in Adventure, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Short Stories, Top-Notch Magazine, The Magic Carpet/Oriental Stories, Golden Fleece Historical Adventure, Ace-High Magazine, People's Story Magazine, Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine, Detective Fiction Weekly, Western Story Magazine, and Weird Tales.

Bedford-Jones wrote numerous works of historical fiction dealing with several different eras, including Ancient Rome, the Viking era, seventeenth century France and Canada during the "New France" era.[3] Bedford-Jones produced several fantasy novels revolving around Lost Worlds, including The Temple of the Ten (1921, with W. C. Robertson).[3]

In addition to writing fiction, Bedford-Jones also worked as a journalist for the Boston Globe, and wrote poetry.[3] Bedford-Jones was a friend of Erle Stanley Gardner, Vincent Starrett,[5][6] and Lemuel de Bra.[7]

Works

partial list

Non-fiction

Gallery

  • Bedford-Jones's "Comrade Island" was the cover story in the January 1916 issue of The Argosy
    Bedford-Jones's "Comrade Island" was the cover story in the January 1916 issue of The Argosy
  • Bedford-Jones's novelette "Pearls from Macao" took the cover of the July 1933 issue of Magic Carpet
    Bedford-Jones's novelette "Pearls from Macao" took the cover of the July 1933 issue of Magic Carpet
  • Bedford-Jones's "The Artificial Honeymoon" was the cover story in the July 1940 Weird Tales
    Bedford-Jones's "The Artificial Honeymoon" was the cover story in the July 1940 Weird Tales

References

  1. ^ Ashley, Michael (1978). Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction. Elm tree Books. p. 30. ISB0-241-89528-6.
  2. ^ Clute, John; Nicholls, Peter (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 101–102. ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
  3. ^ a b c d e Mike Ashley, "Bedford Jones, H(enry James O'Brien)", in St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers, edited by David Pringle, St. James Press, 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5, p. 51-3.
  4. ^ Bernard A. Drew, Literary afterlife: the posthumous continuations of 325 authors' fictional characters. McFarland, 2010, ISBN 0-7864-4179-8 (pp. 43-44).
  5. ^ H. Bedford-Jones: "King of the Pulps" by Peter Ruber Archived January 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Vincent Starrett, Born in a bookshop; chapters from the Chicago Renascence." Norman, University of Oklahoma Press,1965.
  7. ^ "The Government Agent in Fiction by Lemuel L. de Bra, Former Government Agent", Story World and Photodramatist, vol. 5, Issues 1-5 (1923), pp. 51–53

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