Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

Born in 1898 and active for much of the 20th century, Harold M. Sherman was an American author whose work ranged widely across popular fiction and nonfiction. He wrote adventure stories, detective and science-fiction tales, stage work, screen material, and later a large body of books about extrasensory perception, mental powers, and related subjects.

One of the most frequently noted episodes in his life was his telepathy experiment with explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, a collaboration that helped make Sherman especially well known to readers interested in psychic research. A surviving portrait from the period is captioned around 1957, which fits the public image he developed as a writer and lecturer on these topics.

Sherman died in 1987. Today he is remembered less as a single-genre novelist than as a remarkably versatile popular writer whose career connected pulp-era storytelling, performance writing, and mid-century fascination with the paranormal.