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Harold Owen

1872–1930

Best remembered as a British playwright and journalist, he is closely linked with the stage success of Mr. Wu and other early 20th-century theatrical work. His writing moved between drama and public commentary, giving it a brisk, practical energy.

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Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu

by Louise Jordan Miln, Harold Owen, Harry M. Vernon

About the author

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on May 3, 1872, Harold Owen was a British writer whose career appears to have spanned both journalism and the theatre. Reliable catalog and reference records connect him with the labels "author," "journalist," and "playwright," and place his death in 1930.

Owen is most often associated with Mr. Wu, the play created with H. M. Vernon that later led to several screen adaptations and a novel version credited to Louise Jordan Miln, Owen, and Vernon. Broadway databases also credit him as the writer of Such Is Life, showing that his work reached audiences beyond Britain during the 1910s.

Although he is not a widely documented literary figure today, the surviving records suggest a working writer active in popular theatre at a time when stage drama, adaptation, and journalism often overlapped. That mix helps explain why his name still turns up in theatre archives, library catalogs, and public-domain collections.