George S. Harney

George S. Harney was an American writer best known for David Lannarck, Midget, an adventure novel set against circus life and the American West. Project Gutenberg lists that book as his only recorded work there, and notes its 1951 publication.

The small amount of biographical information that can be confirmed suggests he was the same George S. Harney remembered in an Indiana obituary as a lawyer, farmer, industrialist, army officer in the Spanish-American War, editor, and author. That obituary says he died in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1952 at age 87, had graduated from Wabash College in 1883, and published his first book in 1951.

Taken together, those details paint a picture of a writer who came to fiction after a long, eventful career in public and professional life. Even with only one clearly documented novel, Harney stands out as an author who arrived late and brought a lifetime of experience to an adventurous story.