author
Harvey Wickham
1872–1930
A musician-turned-novelist, he moved from church and music work into popular fiction and later into fiercely argued religious writing. His career mixed mystery stories, musical journalism, and Catholic apologetics in a way that still feels unusual.
1 Audiobook
The misbehaviorists : Pseudo-science and the modern temper
by Harvey Wickham
About the author
Born in Middletown, New York, Harvey Wickham built an early career as a pianist, organist, and choirmaster. Contemporary records connect him with Grace Church in Middletown, and later accounts say he also wrote for The Etude and worked in music journalism after moving to San Francisco.
As an author, he published fiction including The Boncoeur Affair and The Trail of the Squid. Reference sources describe him not only as a novelist but also as a religious apologist, noting that his later reputation rests largely on a small group of Christian philosophical works rather than on his earlier mystery fiction.
Some basic details about his life are not entirely consistent across sources, including his birth year, which appears as both 1872 and 1870. He died in 1930, and the surviving picture online is of book covers rather than a confirmed portrait photograph.