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Herbert Nunn
1877–1947
Best remembered for lively stories for younger readers, this early 20th-century British writer also worked as an engineer and public official. His career joined practical city-building with a steady stream of adventure and school stories.
1 Audiobook
Third biennial report of the Oregon State Highway Commission : covering the period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918
by Simon Benson, R. A. (Robert Asbury) Booth, Herbert Nunn, W. L. Thompson
About the author
Born in 1877 and dying in 1947, Herbert Nunn was a British author whose books were widely aimed at younger readers. He is associated with adventure fiction and school stories, and his name also appears in public-domain library records that preserve his work.
Outside literature, he is also known for a substantial professional life in engineering and civic administration. That mix of technical work and storytelling gives his profile an unusual shape: part practical man of the city, part writer for leisure and imagination.
Because easily available source material on him is fairly limited, many modern readers meet him through archival sites such as Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Project Gutenberg rather than through long modern biographies. Even so, those records make clear that he left behind a body of fiction that continued to circulate after his lifetime.