author
Harvey Wickham
1872–1930
A pianist and organist before he became a novelist and religious writer, this early-20th-century American author moved from music journalism into fiction and Christian apologetics. His work ranges from adventure tales to forceful, often controversial arguments about faith, culture, and modern ideas.
1 Audiobook
The misbehaviorists : Pseudo-science and the modern temper
by Harvey Wickham
About the author
Born in Middletown, New York, Harvey Wickham built his early career in music. Contemporary and reference sources describe him as a pianist, organist, and choirmaster, and connect him with Grace Church in Middletown as well as writing for The Etude, a well-known music magazine.
Later, he turned more fully to writing. Bibliographic and encyclopedia sources show that he published novels such as The Clue of the Primrose Petal, The Boncoeur Affair, Jungle Terror, and The Trail of the Squid, before becoming better known for religious and philosophical books written near the end of his life.
Those later works gave him a distinct place as a Christian apologist, though some of his opinions also made his reputation more divisive after his death in 1930. Reliable reference sources agree that his career combined music, journalism, fiction, and religious argument in an unusual way.