author
G. Sidney Paternoster
1866–1925
Best known for vivid early motoring adventures, this English writer also worked as a journalist and turned his attention to urgent real-world injustice. His books range from fast-moving popular fiction to a stark account of the Putumayo atrocities.
2 Audiobooks
The master criminal
by G. Sidney Paternoster
The Motor Pirate
by G. Sidney Paternoster
About the author
Born in Cirencester in 1866, G. Sidney Paternoster was an English journalist and author who died on December 2, 1925, in Mill Hill, Middlesex. Reference sources describe him as a journalist, including work on the staff of The Times, and as a writer of light fiction.
He is especially remembered for The Motor Pirate (1903) and The Cruise of the Conquistador (1905), adventurous tales built around a masked outlaw and unusually advanced vehicles. Later readers and genre historians have noted these books as early examples of motoring adventure with a near-future, speculative edge.
Paternoster also wrote beyond fiction. His 1913 book The Lords of the Devil's Paradise was an account of the atrocities in the Putumayo rubber district, showing that his career ranged from popular entertainment to serious reporting on abuses that had drawn international attention.