Homer Randall

Homer Randall appears to have been a house pseudonym rather than a single, easily documented individual author. Reliable catalog and audiobook sources connect the name with the Army Boys series, a set of six juvenile adventure novels published around 1919–1920 and centered on American soldiers in World War I.

Project Gutenberg and other library-style listings preserve several of these books, including Army Boys in France, Army Boys in the French Trenches, Army Boys on the Firing Line, Army Boys in the Big Drive, Army Boys Marching into Germany, and Army Boys on German Soil. The stories are fast-moving, patriotic, and aimed at younger readers, following a group of friends from enlistment through combat and into the closing stages of the war.

Modern reference pages for the series describe “Homer Randall” as a Stratemeyer Syndicate name used for these books, which fits the Syndicate’s well-known practice of publishing children’s series under shared pen names. Because of that, clear biographical details about a real person behind the name are hard to confirm, so the books themselves remain the most dependable way to understand the author credit.