Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

Born in Shiloh, New Jersey, in 1859, Everett Titsworth Tomlinson became a prolific American author whose work was aimed largely at younger readers. Library and public-domain catalogs consistently identify him as Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson, 1859–1931, and show a long list of books published from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth.

His writing ranged across both fiction and nonfiction, but American history was one of his clearest interests. Records for books such as Stories of the American Revolution, A Short History of the American Revolution, The Boy Officers of 1812, and The Book of Pioneers show how often he returned to the Revolutionary era, the War of 1812, and other episodes from the American past, usually shaping them into accessible, story-driven reading for boys and general juvenile audiences.

Today, Tomlinson is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a hardworking storyteller and popularizer of history. Many of his books remain traceable through the Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and The Online Books Page, which suggests the lasting reach of his once-popular adventure tales and historical narratives.