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Everard Jack Appleton

1872–1931

A journalist and poet from Cincinnati, he published from a remarkably young age and moved easily between verse, short fiction, and popular magazine writing. His surviving work ranges from uplifting poems to early speculative tales, giving modern readers a lively glimpse of turn-of-the-century American writing.

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With the Colors

With the Colors

by Everard Jack Appleton

About the author

Born in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1872, he wrote and published while still a teenager. The American Antiquarian Society notes that his early pieces were created when he was just eighteen or nineteen, and later describes him as a celebrated poet and professional journalist in Cincinnati.

His work covered more than one lane. Listings for his writings show poetry collections such as The Quiet Courage, and Other Songs of the Unafraid and With the Colors: Songs of the American Service, while bibliographic and memorial sources also connect him with short stories and early science-fiction or fantasy pieces including "The Sea Serpent Syndicate," "The Sound Machine," and "A Problem in Motion."

He died in 1931. Although he is not widely known today, his career still stands out for its range: youthful literary experiments, patriotic and inspirational verse, and imaginative magazine fiction all under the name Everard Jack Appleton.