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b. 1863
Best known for brisk, adventurous fiction for young readers, this Indiana-born writer also helped shape the early magazine world of popular storytelling. His books range from naval and military tales to lost-world adventures set in South America and beyond.

by Henry Harrison Lewis

by Henry Harrison Lewis
Henry Harrison Lewis was an American author and editor born in Indiana on March 29, 1863. Reliable reference sources describe him as a writer of boys' adventure fiction and note that he also worked under the pseudonym Lieut. Lionel Lounsberry.
During the 1890s and early 1900s, he was closely connected with the publisher Street & Smith. Sources credit him with serving in several editorial roles there, including work on Army and Navy Weekly, and with becoming the first editor of The Popular Magazine in 1903.
His fiction often leaned toward action, exploration, and suspense. Among the works repeatedly highlighted by reference sources are The Treasure of the Golden Crater and The Valley of Mystery, both adventurous tales with lost-world elements. I couldn't confirm a trustworthy portrait image for him from the sources I found, so none is included here.