author
Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland
1874–1933
A practicing surgeon who also built a career in popular fiction, he wrote adventure and mystery stories that reached a wide audience and even made their way to the screen. His work has the brisk, high-stakes feel of early 20th-century magazine storytelling.
2 Audiobooks
The Mountain of Fears
by Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland
The magnet : A romance
by Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland
About the author
Born on March 12, 1874, Henry Cottrell Rowland was an American surgeon and writer. He published fiction as Henry C. Rowland, and his stories and novels found enough success that several were later adapted for film.
Rowland seems to have balanced medicine with a steady writing career, which gives his work an unusual blend of professional authority and page-turning energy. Today he is remembered less as a household name than as one of those versatile early 1900s authors whose books moved easily between print culture and the growing film industry.
He died on June 6, 1933. Project Gutenberg lists his work among its digitized authors, helping keep titles such as The Magnet and The Mountain of Fears available to modern readers.