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Benjamin F. (Benjamin Freeman) Comfort
1863–1941
Best known for the historical novel Arnold's Tempter, this Detroit writer also turned his attention to local and regional history. His work ranges from Revolutionary-era fiction to studies of Lewis Cass and the story of Cass Technical High School.
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Arnold's Tempter
by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Freeman) Comfort
About the author
Born in 1863 and deceased in 1941, Benjamin Freeman Comfort was an American author whose surviving books show a strong interest in history. He is credited as the author of Arnold's Tempter (1908), a historical novel set during the American Revolutionary period.
Comfort also wrote nonfiction with a regional focus, including Lewis Cass and the Indian Treaties (1923). Another work associated with him is Annals of Cass Technical High School, linking him to Detroit and its educational history.
He does not appear to be a widely documented literary figure today, but the books that remain suggest a writer drawn to American history, biography, and the telling of local institutional stories.