author
Gerald Breckenridge
d. 1964
Best remembered for his fast-moving Radio Boys adventures, he blended a journalist’s eye for contemporary technology with the upbeat energy of early twentieth-century juvenile fiction. His books capture the excitement Americans felt as radio was changing everyday life.
8 Audiobooks
The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure
by Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys in Darkest Africa
by Gerald Breckenridge
About the author
Gerald Breckenridge was an American journalist and author active in the early decades of the twentieth century. Reference works identify him as born in Pennsylvania in 1889 and dying in Richmond, Virginia, in 1964, and some sources note that he may have been born Gerald Breitigam.
He is chiefly known for writing one of the best-known Radio Boys series, beginning with The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty in 1922. These adventure novels brought together wireless technology, mystery, travel, and teamwork, giving young readers stories that felt both modern and exciting at a time when radio was still new and full of promise.
Alongside his fiction, Breckenridge also worked as a journalist, and that background helps explain the brisk, clear style of his books. Though he is not as widely remembered today as some other writers of boys' series fiction, his work remains a lively snapshot of the era when radio captured the popular imagination.