Henry MacMahon

Henry MacMahon is a little-documented author whose name is chiefly preserved through Orphans of the Storm. Project Gutenberg lists only that work under his name, which suggests that very little of his writing has remained widely available in modern reprint or digital collections.

Orphans of the Storm was published in 1922 as a complete novel drawn from D. W. Griffith’s motion picture of the same name. The story follows two sisters caught up in danger, injustice, and revolution in late-18th-century France, and MacMahon’s version helped carry a popular silent-film story into book form for readers of the time.

Because reliable biographical sources on him are scarce, many personal details about MacMahon are hard to confirm. What can be said with confidence is that his work survives as a small but interesting piece of early movie-related publishing history.