Arthur Frederick Wallis

Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm, but library and book records identify Arthur Frederick Wallis as the writer of Idonia: A Romance of Old London, published in 1914, and Stars of the Morning: A Play, published earlier in 1903.

Those works point to a writer interested in storytelling across forms. Stars of the Morning shows him working in drama, while Idonia turns to historical fiction, using an older London setting to build a story of loyalty, danger, and personal conflict.

Because reliable details about his life are scarce, Wallis remains a somewhat shadowy figure compared with better-known authors of his era. That mystery can be part of the appeal: the books themselves are the clearest window into a writer who seems to have cared most about atmosphere, character, and the pull of the past.