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.

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]

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)

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• Works by or about Henry Bedford-Jones at the Internet Archive
• Works by Henry Bedford-Jones at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Henry Bedford-Jones at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works by Henry Bedford-Jones at Project Gutenberg Australia
• A large collection of Bedford-Jones's manuscripts resides at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin