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Gordon Braddock

Best known for the spirited Rex Kingdon adventure books, this early 20th-century writer published fast-moving stories for young readers under the name Gordon Braddock. The name appears to have been one of the pseudonyms used by prolific dime-novel author Gilbert Patten.

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Rex Kingdon on Storm Island

Rex Kingdon on Storm Island

by Gordon Braddock

About the author

Gordon Braddock is a pen name associated with Gilbert Patten (1866–1945), a hugely prolific American writer of popular fiction for young readers. Patten is better known today for creating Frank Merriwell, but sources also connect him with the Rex Kingdon series published in the 1910s.

The books credited to Gordon Braddock follow Rex Kingdon through school, sports, camping, and outdoor adventure, with the brisk pacing and cliffhanger energy that made juvenile series fiction so popular in that era. One confirmed title available through Project Gutenberg is Rex Kingdon on Storm Island (1917).

Because reliable biographical information published specifically under the Gordon Braddock name is sparse, most of what can be said with confidence comes from sources on Gilbert Patten and bibliographic records for the Rex Kingdon books. In other words, Gordon Braddock is best understood not as a separately documented public figure, but as one of the bylines tied to Patten's long career in adventure storytelling.