author
b. 1880
Best known for a brisk, adventure-filled story about a teenage newspaper cub, this early 20th-century writer captured the pull of ambition, travel, and old-school reporting. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.
by Harry Steele Morrison
Harry Steele Morrison is a little-documented American author born in 1880, remembered today mainly for The Adventures of a Boy Reporter. That novel was published in 1900 and follows a young reporter, Archie Dunn, as he moves from small-town life into the energy of the newsroom and then into overseas adventure.
The book has lasted because of its fast pace and its window into turn-of-the-century journalism. Modern readers usually encounter Morrison through public-domain and reprint editions, and major library and book-record sites consistently connect his name with this single surviving title.
Beyond that, confirmed facts are scarce. Available catalog and library records identify him as “Harry Steele Morrison, 1880-,” but the sources I found did not clearly establish later life details such as his death date, a fuller bibliography, or a verified portrait.