author
Henry Harrison Lewis
b. 1863
Adventure, travel, and fast-moving boyhood exploits run through these rediscovered tales from a prolific American writer and editor of popular fiction. His stories capture the energy of late 19th-century juvenile magazines, with naval action, foreign settings, and a strong taste for suspense.
2 Audiobooks
Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama
by Henry Harrison Lewis
Midshipman Merrill
by Henry Harrison Lewis
About the author
Henry Harrison Lewis was an American author born in 1863 who wrote popular adventure fiction for young readers. Surviving bibliographic records tie him to books including Midshipman Merrill and Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama, and later library and reference sources describe him as both a writer and an editor associated with Street & Smith.
What stands out most about Lewis is the kind of fiction he produced: brisk, serialized storytelling built around capable young heroes, travel, danger, and military or maritime settings. A modern library note on Midshipman Merrill says the novel first appeared in the Good News story paper in 1890 before being reissued in book form, which fits his place in the lively world of American juvenile publishing at the end of the 19th century.
Some later reference sources also credit Lewis with writing under pseudonyms and house names, but the details are uneven across the records that are easy to confirm online. What can be said confidently is that his work belongs to the tradition of boys' adventure fiction that bridged dime novels, story papers, and early pulp-era entertainment.