author
Charles Heber Clark
1841–1915
Best known by the pen name Max Adeler, he wrote wildly popular comic sketches and novels that brought a playful, exaggerated style to everyday American life. Before and alongside his literary work, he also built a career in journalism and publishing.
4 Audiobooks
Frictional Electricity From "The Saturday Evening Post."
by Charles Heber Clark
The Fortunate Island, and Other Stories
by Charles Heber Clark
Out of the Hurly-Burly; Or, Life in an Odd Corner
by Charles Heber Clark
Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot
by Charles Heber Clark
About the author
Born in Berlin, Maryland, in 1841, Charles Heber Clark became an American novelist and humorist whose best-known work appeared under the name Max Adeler. He also used the pseudonym John Quill, and his writing helped make him a recognizable comic voice in the late 19th century.
Clark worked as a journalist and editor, especially in Philadelphia, and was involved in publishing as well as literary writing. His best-known book, Out of the Hurly-Burly (1874), brought him broad attention for its energetic humor and absurd, exaggerated storytelling.
He died in 1915 in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania. Today he is remembered mainly for his lively humor writing and for the way his pen name, Max Adeler, became better known than his own.