George Willard Bartlett

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable sources available during this search. Library and catalog records identify George Willard Bartlett as an author born in 1857, and public-domain listings connect him most clearly with King Solomon's Goat.

That book has survived through Project Gutenberg and other catalog listings, which suggests his work continued to attract enough interest to be preserved and reissued. Because so little dependable personal information was readily available, the surviving record is shaped more by the unusual afterlife of his writing than by details of his day-to-day life.

For readers, that scarcity can be part of the appeal: Bartlett feels like one of those half-lost authors whose reputation rests on a single memorable title, leaving the work itself to do most of the talking.