Henry Fletcher

Born in London on August 23, 1856, he moved to Australia in 1872 and led an unusually itinerant life, spending time in Tasmania, travelling through the Australian colonies and New Zealand, and later living in Europe before returning to Australia.

His fiction began appearing in the 1890s, with short stories published in The Bulletin. He went on to publish several novels, including The North Shore Mystery and Red Harry, and is associated with Australian popular fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He died in Windsor, New South Wales, on January 29, 1932. A suitable confirmed portrait image was not available from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included.