Harold Brough Shinn

Harold Brough Shinn was an American author born in 1877 who is credited on early educational science books from the 1910s. Surviving catalog records connect him with works on zoology and nature study rather than with a large personal literary career.

He is listed as one of the authors of A Guide for the Study of Animals (1911), a school-oriented laboratory manual produced with Worrallo Whitney, Frederic Colby Lucas, Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, and the Biology Round Table of the Chicago High Schools. He also co-authored Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A Manual and Reference (1912) with Gerard Alan Abbott, a book aimed at making bird and nature observation more methodical for students and teachers.

Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce online, so much of his reputation now rests on these surviving publications. Even so, the books suggest a writer closely tied to the hands-on, educational spirit of early American nature study.