author
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
b. 1887
Best known for fast-moving World War I adventure stories, this early-20th-century writer filled his books with naval battles, military campaigns, and young heroes thrown into danger. His work is especially remembered through the long-running Boy Allies series.
18 Audiobooks
The Boy Allies at Verdun; Or, Saving France from the Enemy
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies Under the Sea; Or, The Vanishing Submarines
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies on the Firing Line; Or, Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets; Or, The Fall of the German Navy
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies at Liège; Or, Through Lines of Steel
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders; Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with the Cossacks; Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies in the Baltic; Or, Through Fields of Ice to Aid the Czar
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with Pershing in France; Or, Over the Top at Chateau Thierry
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with Marshal Foch; or, The Closing Days of the Great World War
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies on the North Sea Patrol Or, Striking the First Blow at the German Fleet
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies with the Terror of the Seas; Or, The Last Shot of Submarine D-16
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies in Great Peril; Or, With the Italian Army in the Alps
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies in the Trenches; Or, Midst Shot and Shell Along the Aisne
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
The Boy Allies under Two Flags
by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
About the author
Clair W. Hayes, listed in library and archive records as Clair Wallace Hayes (born 1887), was an American author of popular juvenile adventure fiction. His books were published in the 1910s and early 1920s, a period when series fiction for young readers was especially popular.
He is most closely associated with The Boy Allies books, a large group of World War I adventures issued by A. L. Burt Company. Surviving catalogs and digital editions show titles set across major fronts of the war, including Liège, Verdun, Jutland, the Balkans, and the North Sea, suggesting a writer who specialized in turning current events into brisk, accessible fiction for younger readers.
Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year are hard to confirm from the sources I found, so much of his personal life remains unclear. What does stand out is the reach of his work: many of his stories have been preserved by libraries, archives, and Project Gutenberg, where they continue to introduce modern readers to the style of wartime adventure fiction once read by generations of boys.