author
Frank A. Warner
Best known for fast-moving boys' adventure stories from the early 1900s, this author is closely linked with the Bobby Blake series. The books follow a lively young hero through school life, sports, travel, and outdoor danger in the brisk, cliffhanger style that made vintage series fiction so popular.
4 Audiobooks
Bobby Blake on a Plantation; Or, Lost in the Great Swamp
by Frank A. Warner
Bobby Blake at Rockledge School; or, Winning the Medal of Honor
by Frank A. Warner
Bobby Blake in the Frozen North; Or, The Old Eskimo's Last Message
by Frank A. Warner
About the author
Frank A. Warner is the credited author of the Bobby Blake books, a run of juvenile adventure novels first published in the 1910s and 1920s. Surviving catalog and ebook records confirm titles including Bobby Blake at Rockledge School, Bobby Blake in the Frozen North, Bobby Blake on the School Nine, and Bobby Blake on a Plantation.
The series is associated with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the famous book-packaging operation behind many classic American children's series. That connection helps explain the books' clear storytelling, energetic pacing, and focus on loyalty, courage, competition, and escapade.
Little reliable biographical information about the person behind the name is easy to confirm from major public sources, so it is safest to treat Frank A. Warner primarily as the byline attached to these enduring adventure stories rather than build a fuller life story on uncertain details.