Eliot H. (Eliot Harlow) Robinson

Eliot Harlow Robinson was an American author born in 1884. Library catalogs and public-domain editions identify him as the author of novels including "Smiles," a Rose of the Cumberlands, The Maid of Mirabelle, Man Proposes; or, The Romance of John Alden Shaw, and Smiling Pass.

His work appeared in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and it seems to have moved comfortably between regional romance, adventure fiction, and historical or wartime material. Robinson also contributed introduction and notes to William A. Wellman's 1918 war memoir Go, Get 'Em!, which hints at an interest in contemporary military stories as well as fiction.

Biographical details about Robinson are limited in the sources available here, so this portrait is necessarily brief. Even so, the record that remains points to a hardworking popular writer whose books belonged to the lively, accessible reading culture of his time.