H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

Born in Napanee, Ontario, in 1887, Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones became one of the most prolific popular writers of the early 20th century. He later became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and his fiction ranged widely across historical adventure, crime, westerns, fantasy, and science fiction.

Bedford-Jones built his reputation in dime novels and pulp magazines, where his pace and output were remarkable even by the standards of the time. He wrote more than 100 novels along with a large number of shorter stories, and his work appeared in major pulp publications for decades.

His stories were shaped by a love of action, romance, and swashbuckling history; Alexandre Dumas is often noted as an important influence, and Bedford-Jones even wrote D'Artagnan as a sequel to The Three Musketeers. Though less widely known today than he once was, he remains a memorable figure in pulp fiction history.