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George Durston
Best known for adventure stories published under male pen names, this American writer also produced poetry and outdoor pieces that reached a wide readership. Her career offers a fascinating glimpse into early 20th-century popular fiction and publishing.
6 Audiobooks
The Boy Scout Aviators
by George Durston
The Boy Scouts on the Trail
by George Durston
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
by George Durston
The Boy Scouts' Victory
by George Durston
The Boy Scouts to the Rescue
by George Durston
The Boy Scout pathfinders
by George Durston
About the author
Georgia Roberts Durston was an American writer born in Utica, New York, in 1868 and died in 1947. She wrote novels, outdoor articles, and poetry, and some of her work appeared under male pen names including George Durston, Major Robert Maitland, Colonel George Durston, Captain John Blaine, and Colonel James Fiske.
She is especially remembered in connection with boys' adventure fiction published in the early 1900s. That pseudonymous work helped place her within the lively world of series books and popular entertainment writing, where publishers often used house names rather than promoting the individual author.
Durston also wrote poems, including animal poems that became familiar to many schoolchildren through anthology use. If you picked up a book credited to George Durston, you may actually be meeting the work of Georgia Roberts Durston — a versatile author who moved comfortably between fiction, magazine writing, and verse.