author
Henry William Herbert
1807–1858
A lively 19th-century writer who moved easily between fiction, history, and the sporting world, he became widely known under the pen name Frank Forester. His work helped shape early American outdoor and sporting writing while also showing off a broad literary range.
7 Audiobooks
The dog
by Henry William Herbert, W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson, Edward Mayhew
The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2
by Henry William Herbert
Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago
by Henry William Herbert
Wager of Battle: A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest
by Henry William Herbert
The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1
by Henry William Herbert
The Silent Rifleman! A tale of the Texan prairies
by Henry William Herbert
The Knights of England, France, and Scotland
by Henry William Herbert
About the author
Born in London in 1807, Henry William Herbert was educated at Eton and Caius College, Cambridge, and later settled in the United States. He wrote under the name Frank Forester and built a reputation as a novelist, poet, journalist, historian, illustrator, and sporting author.
Herbert became especially well known for writing about field sports and outdoor life, but he was far from a narrow specialist. Contemporary accounts and later reference works describe him as an unusually learned and versatile man, with strong classical training and wide knowledge of English literature and history.
He died in New York in 1858. Today he is remembered both for his fiction and for his lasting place in early American sporting literature, where his energetic style and wide interests made him a distinctive figure.