author
Edward Barron
1874–1962
Best known as the pen name behind The Lost Goddess, this early-20th-century writer mixed adventure, romance, and popular fiction with the life experience of a U.S. naval officer.
1 Audiobook
An Accidental Honeymoon
by Edward Barron
About the author
Edward Barron was a pseudonym used by David Potter (1874–1962), an American naval officer and author from Bridgeton, New Jersey. Reference sources identify him as a U.S. naval officer who wrote nonfiction and sentimental novels under his own name, while publishing The Lost Goddess (1908) under the name Edward Barron.
His fiction moved easily between light romantic storytelling and more adventurous material. Works published as David Potter include An Accidental Honeymoon and I Fasten a Bracelet, while The Lost Goddess stands out as his pseudonymous lost-world novel set in South America.
That blend of military career and popular storytelling gives his work a distinctive flavor: polished, lively, and very much of its era. For listeners exploring forgotten adventure fiction, Edward Barron offers an interesting doorway into the kinds of novels readers enjoyed in the early 1900s.