Arundel Cotter

Born in 1883 and dying in 1952, Arundel Cotter wrote narrative nonfiction about major American companies at a time when industrial growth was reshaping the country. His best-known books include The Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation, later published as United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul, and The Story of Bethlehem Steel.

Cotter’s writing focused on the people, strategy, and public image behind large corporations, especially in the steel business. Rather than writing as a dry technical historian, he presented industrial history as a story, helping ordinary readers follow how powerful companies were built and led.

Available sources also connect him with Your Securities Under Social Security, a 1936 handbook on the labor side of investing, showing that his interests extended beyond corporate history into practical economic writing. Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth and death years is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him chiefly as a clear, accessible interpreter of American business history.