author
Homer Randall
Best known as the house name behind the Army Boys adventure series, this byline was used for fast-moving World War I stories created for young readers. The books were part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate’s hugely influential world of early 20th-century series fiction.
5 Audiobooks
Army Boys on the Firing Line; or, Holding Back the German Drive
by Homer Randall
Army Boys in France; or, From Training Camp to Trenches
by Homer Randall
Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
by Homer Randall
About the author
Homer Randall was not a single, identifiable author but a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the American book-packaging company behind many popular children’s series. The name is most closely associated with the Army Boys books, a six-volume series published around 1919 to 1920 and set against the battlefields of World War I.
The Army Boys stories followed a familiar Stratemeyer formula: friendship, danger, patriotic adventure, and cliffhanger-style momentum designed to keep young readers turning pages. Like many Syndicate books, they were published under a shared pen name rather than the real writer’s name, which helped create a consistent brand for the series.
Because Homer Randall was a house name, biographical details about a single person do not really apply here. Some reference sources connect the Army Boys books with writer John W. Duffield, but the byline itself belongs to the Syndicate tradition rather than to one standalone authorial figure.