H. Esselstyn Lindley

H. Esselstyn Lindley is the credited author of Zula, a novel published in 1905. The book has remained available through later reprints and public-domain editions, which is why the name still turns up in modern catalogs and reading sites.

Reliable biographical information about the author appears to be very limited. From the sources available here, it is safest to say that Lindley is known chiefly through Zula rather than through a well-documented public life.

That makes this one of those authors whose presence is felt mostly on the page: the surviving record points to a writer from the early 1900s whose work outlasted the details of their personal history.