author

Bart Haley

b. 1876

Best remembered as an illustrator and newspaper man, this early 20th-century writer collaborated with Christopher Morley on the satirical novel In the Sweet Dry and Dry. The surviving record is thin, which gives his work an appealing air of discovery.

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In the Sweet Dry and Dry

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

by Christopher Morley, Bart Haley

About the author

Bart Haley appears in the historical record as both an illustrator and a writer. Library and public-domain book sources credit him as the co-author, with Christopher Morley, of In the Sweet Dry and Dry (1919), a comic novel published on the eve of Prohibition.

Other cataloged works connect him with illustration as well. Book listings identify him as the illustrator of titles including Samantha vs. Josiah and The Sunny Side of the Street, suggesting a career that moved comfortably between visual art and literary collaboration.

A later historical article also identifies a Bart Haley as a reporter for Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger during the first Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle trial. Because readily available sources do not provide a full, well-documented life story, details such as his birth year and broader biography should be treated with caution unless confirmed by stronger archival records.