author
Harry Steele Morrison
b. 1880
Best known for spirited adventure writing, this early-20th-century American author turned youthful ambition into stories of travel, journalism, and self-made success. His books capture the energy of a boy reporter and a traveler determined to work his way across the world.
1 Audiobook
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter
by Harry Steele Morrison
About the author
Harry Steele Morrison was an American author born in 1880. Surviving catalog records link him to books including A Yankee Boy's Success (1898), The Adventures of a Boy Reporter (1900), and How I Worked My Way Around the World (1903).
His best-known work today is How I Worked My Way Around the World, a travel memoir published by The Christian Herald. The book presents him as a young American traveler who supported himself through jobs as he circled the globe, giving his writing an energetic, firsthand feel.
Very little widely documented biographical information about him appears in standard public sources, so most of what can be confirmed comes through library and book records rather than fuller life histories. Even so, his surviving books suggest a writer drawn to ambition, adventure, and the idea of making one's own way in the world.