Henry Augustus Hering

Henry Augustus Hering was an American writer born in 1864 and died in 1945. Available library and catalog records link him to The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles and to a number of shorter speculative stories published under the name Henry A. Hering.

Database listings for early science fiction magazines and bibliographic projects credit him with stories in the Silas P. Cornu sequence, including pieces published in the 1890s. Those records suggest a writer interested in comic invention, gadgets, and lightly satirical fantasy long before those themes became common in modern genre fiction.

Biographical detail beyond those publication facts is limited in the sources I could confirm, and I could not verify a reliable portrait image from the pages available. Even so, his work remains of interest to readers who enjoy overlooked American popular fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.