author
Dan Morrissey
A little-known pulp-era writer whose surviving work captures the excitement of early aviation and youthful adventure. His fiction has found new readers through modern public-domain archives and audiobook editions.
1 Audiobook
Hooking a sky ride
by Dan Morrissey
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author was available in the sources I found, so he remains something of a mystery. What can be confirmed is that Dan Morrissey wrote Hooking a sky ride, a short story first published in 1929 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.
That story follows a thirteen-year-old boy near San Antonio, Texas, whose fascination with airplanes pulls him into a risky adventure. The piece reflects the wide-eyed energy of early flying stories and the magazine fiction of its time, with a clear, straightforward style that makes it easy to enjoy today.
Because so little reliable background information is readily documented, the work itself is the best introduction to Morrissey. For listeners who enjoy forgotten popular fiction, his writing offers a small but vivid glimpse of early 20th-century adventure storytelling.