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

  • Blood Royal (People's, 1914)
  • John Solomon, Supercargo (Argosy, 1914) John Solomon #2
  • Solomon's Quest (People's, 1915) John Solomon #3
  • Gentleman Solomon (People's, 1915) John Solomon #4
  • The Seal of John Solomon (Argosy, 1915) John Solomon #5
  • Solomon's Carpet (Argosy, 1915) John Solomon #6
  • The Shawl of Solomon (People's, 1917) John Solomon #9
  • John Solomon, Retired (People's, 1917) John Solomon #11
  • Sword Flame (All Story Weekly, 1918)
  • The Ship of Shadows (Blue Book, February 1920)
  • Arizona Argonauts (Short Stories, 1920)
  • The Temple of the Ten (with W. C. Robertson, Adventure 1921, book form 1973)
  • John Solomon (People's, 1921) John Solomon #13
  • John Solomon, Incognito (People's, 1921) John Solomon #14
  • Down the Coast of Barbary (Argosy, 1921)
  • The Shadow (1922)
  • Pirates' Gold (Adventures 1922)
  • Splendour of the Gods (1924)
  • The Star Woman (1924)
  • The Cruise of the Pelican, (1924)
  • The King's Passport (1925)
  • D'Artagnan (Adventure, 1928)
  • The Wizard of Atlas (1928)
  • John Barry, New York : Creative Age Press Inc., [1947]
  • The Opium Ship (2005) originally in The Thrill Book in 1919
  • The House of Skulls and other Tales from the Pulps (2006)
  • Blood Royal (2008)
  • Pirates' Gold (2008)
  • The Golden Goshawk (2009) Captain Dan Marquad series
  • The Master of Dragons (2011) O'Neill and Burkett series
  • The Rajah from Hell (2012)
  • The Saga of Thady Shea (2013)
  • Wilderness Trail (2013) originally in Blue Book in 1915
  • The Sphinx Emerald (2014)
  • The Devil's Bosun (2015)
  • Treasure Seekers (2015)
  • Gimlet-Eye Gunn (2016)
  • Our Far-Flung Battle Line (2017)
  • Warriors in Exile (2017)
  • They Lived by the Sword (2017)
  • The Beginning of Air Mail (2018)
  • Ships and Men (2019)
  • Young Kit Carson (2019)
  • The Second Mate (2020)

Non-fiction

  • This Fiction Business (1922, revised 1929)
  • The Graduate Fictioneer (1932)
  • Money Brawl: How to Write for Money and This Fiction Business (with Jack Woodford; introduction by Richard A. Lupoff 2012)
  • 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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