author
Henry Kitchell Webster
1875–1932
A hugely popular magazine serial writer in the early 20th century, he moved easily from mystery and adventure to family drama and early science fiction. His stories were built to keep readers hooked, but they also captured the moods and ambitions of his era.
7 Audiobooks
The Short Line War
by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster
Mary Wollaston
by Henry Kitchell Webster
The Real Adventure
by Henry Kitchell Webster
Calumet "K"
by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster
Calumet 'K'
by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster
The banker and the bear : The story of a corner in lard
by Henry Kitchell Webster
The Corbin necklace
by Henry Kitchell Webster
About the author
Born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1875, Henry Kitchell Webster became one of the best-known American serial writers of the early 1900s. After graduating from Hamilton College, he taught rhetoric briefly before turning to fiction full time, and his work appeared widely in popular magazines as well as in book form.
Webster wrote across an unusually broad range, including mystery, romance, social drama, adventure, and science fiction. He also collaborated with fellow writer Samuel Merwin early in his career. Readers knew him for fast-moving, accessible storytelling, and he was often noted for understanding how serialized fiction could build a large audience.
He spent much of his life in his hometown of Evanston and died there in 1932. Though he is less widely remembered now than some of his contemporaries, his career offers a vivid picture of how magazine fiction helped shape American popular reading in the decades before radio and film fully took over.