author
George Frederic Turner
b. 1876
An early 20th-century novelist whose surviving books blend society settings, travel, and romance, he published work with major houses including Little, Brown and Dodd, Mead. He remains a little-known figure today, but his fiction still survives through major digital libraries.
1 Audiobook
Gloria
by George Frederic Turner
About the author
George Frederic Turner was a novelist active in the early 1900s. Library and digitized-book records consistently identify him as born in 1876, and surviving editions show at least two books connected with his name: Frost and Friendship (1907), created with G. C. Wilmshurst, and Gloria (1910).
The available records suggest a writer working in the commercial publishing world of his day. Frost and Friendship appeared through Little, Brown and Company, while Gloria was published by Dodd, Mead and Company. The text of Gloria presents his name as "G. Frederic Turner, M.A.," though I could not confirm further biographical details such as where he studied or when he died.
Because reliable biographical information is scarce, Turner is remembered mostly through the books themselves rather than through a well-documented life story. That makes him one of those authors who now feel a bit rediscovered: not famous, but still accessible to modern readers through archives and Project Gutenberg.