F. J. (Frederick John) Randall

Very little biographical information could be confirmed, but library and public-domain records identify F. J. Randall as Frederick John Randall, born in 1872.

He is associated with the novel Love and the Ironmonger, which survives through Project Gutenberg, and with The Bermondsey Twin, originally published in 1911. The available descriptions of these books point to an author interested in character, humor, and working- or middle-class urban life.

Because so few reliable personal details were available in the sources consulted, much of Randall's life remains unclear. What does remain is a glimpse of a novelist whose fiction preserves a slice of everyday English life from the early 1900s.