Henry Bedford-Jones


Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones 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. After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer William Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories. 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. Bedford-Jones cited Alexandre Dumas as his main influence, and wrote a sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan. 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 American Fiction; 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. Bedford-Jones produced several fantasy novels revolving around Lost Worlds, including The Temple of the Ten.
In addition to writing fiction, Bedford-Jones also worked as a journalist for the Boston Globe, and wrote poetry. Bedford-Jones was a friend of Erle Stanley Gardner, Vincent Starrett, and Lemuel de Bra.

Works

partial list
  • Blood Royal
  • John Solomon, Supercargo John Solomon #2
  • Solomon's Quest John Solomon #3
  • Gentleman Solomon John Solomon #4
  • The Seal of John Solomon John Solomon #5
  • Solomon's Carpet John Solomon #6
  • The Shawl of Solomon John Solomon #9
  • John Solomon, Retired John Solomon #11
  • Sword Flame
  • The Ship of Shadows
  • Arizona Argonauts
  • The Temple of the Ten
  • John Solomon John Solomon #13
  • John Solomon, Incognito John Solomon #14
  • Down the Coast of Barbary
  • The Shadow
  • Pirates' Gold
  • Splendour of the Gods
  • The Star Woman
  • The Cruise of the Pelican,
  • The King's Passport
  • D'Artagnan
  • The Wizard of Atlas
  • John Barry, New York : Creative Age Press Inc.,
  • The Opium Ship originally in The Thrill Book in 1919
  • The House of Skulls and other Tales from the Pulps
  • Blood Royal
  • Pirates' Gold
  • The Golden Goshawk Captain Dan Marquad series
  • The Master of Dragons O'Neill and Burkett series
  • The Rajah from Hell
  • The Saga of Thady Shea
  • Wilderness Trail originally in Blue Book in 1915
  • The Sphinx Emerald
  • The Devil's Bosun
  • Treasure Seekers
  • Gimlet-Eye Gunn
  • Our Far-Flung Battle Line
  • Warriors in Exile
  • They Lived by the Sword
  • The Beginning of Air Mail
  • Ships and Men
  • Young Kit Carson
  • The Second Mate
Non-fiction
  • This Fiction Business
  • The Graduate Fictioneer
  • ''Money Brawl: How to Write for Money and This Fiction Business''