author
Alfred Raymond
These early 20th-century stories follow resourceful young people learning to work hard, make good choices, and grow up with confidence. Very little is firmly documented about the writer, which gives the books an old-school, slightly mysterious charm.
2 Audiobooks
Harry Harding—Messenger "45"
by Alfred Raymond
Harry Harding's Year of Promise
by Alfred Raymond
About the author
Alfred Raymond is the credited author of the Harry Harding books, including Harry Harding—Messenger "45" and Harry Harding's Year of Promise. Those novels, now available through Project Gutenberg, are juvenile stories centered on work, friendship, and self-improvement in a department-store setting.
Reliable biographical information about Alfred Raymond is scarce in the sources I could confirm. Because of that, it is safest to describe the author through the surviving books themselves: practical, upbeat fiction for younger readers, written in the early 20th century and focused on responsibility, ambition, and everyday adventure.
That limited paper trail is part of the appeal. For modern listeners, Alfred Raymond stands as one of those half-forgotten authors whose stories have outlasted the details of the life behind them.