author
Horace Herbert Smith
1868–1936
A globe-trotting reporter turned author, he brought the energy of the newsroom to stories of crime, adventure, and real-life intrigue. His books carry the pace of firsthand journalism and the flavor of a restless early-20th-century career.
1 Audiobook
The war maker : Being the true story of Captain George B. Boynton
by Horace Herbert Smith
About the author
Born in Ontario in 1868, Horace Herbert Smith worked in journalism before building a career as an author. Sources available here consistently connect him with newspaper work in North America, including reporting in Butte, Montana, and later literary work in New York.
He is known for The War Maker: Being the True Story of Captain George B. Boynton and for Crooks of the Waldorf. Modern book descriptions also credit him with a memoir-like manuscript about 1890s Butte, Montana that was published long after his death as Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana.
Smith died in 1936. While some later summaries add colorful details about his circle and travels, the clearest points confirmed from the sources gathered here are his Canadian birth, his newspaper background, his authorship of adventure and crime-related nonfiction, and his long afterlife as a writer still being rediscovered by new readers.