Harry McDonald Walters

Harry McDonald Walters was an early 20th-century writer whose surviving published work includes Civil Service Jingles and Other Things (1911) and Wesblock, the Autobiography of an Automaton (1914). The first was published in Ottawa and is closely tied to civil-service life, suggesting a sharp eye for bureaucracy and the small comedies of office routine.

His writing seems to have moved comfortably between light verse, social satire, and speculative fiction. Wesblock stands out for using an automaton narrator, which gives his work an unexpectedly inventive edge for its time.

Reliable biographical detail about Walters is scarce online, so it is safest to treat him as a relatively obscure author known mainly through these surviving books rather than through a well-documented public life.