author
Edward P. Hendrick
Best known for the early 20th-century adventure tale Copper Coleson’s Ghost, this elusive writer left behind a small, intriguing trail of fiction and later religious writing. What survives suggests a versatile author who moved between boys' adventure storytelling and more personal, reflective work.
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Copper Coleson's Ghost
by Edward P. Hendrick
About the author
Very little firmly documented biographical information about Edward P. Hendrick was available in the sources I could confirm. He is credited by Project Gutenberg as the author of Copper Coleson’s Ghost, a youthful mystery-adventure novel that helped preserve his name for modern readers.
Other surviving traces suggest he also wrote short fiction for The Youth's Companion, including a piece titled Jimmy’s Job. Book-trade listings also connect him with a later work, The Soliloquy of a Skeptic (1944), which appears to have been published in Newtonville, Massachusetts.
Because reliable biographical records are scarce, Hendrick remains something of a shadowy figure. That mystery adds a certain charm: his work survives more clearly than his life, inviting readers to discover the kind of storytelling that once entertained magazine readers and young adventure fans alike.