author
J. Aubrey (John Aubrey) Tyson
1870–1930
A journalist and novelist from Philadelphia, he wrote brisk popular fiction with a taste for suspense, intrigue, and high-stakes adventure. His best-known titles include The Scarlet Tanager and The Barge of Haunted Lives, both now remembered by readers of early 20th-century genre fiction.
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The barge of haunted lives
by J. Aubrey (John Aubrey) Tyson
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in March 1870, John Aubrey Tyson published under the name J. Aubrey Tyson. Sources available here identify him as an American writer, and one reference describes him as a journalist who worked for newspapers in the northeastern United States.
Tyson wrote popular fiction with a strong pull toward adventure and suspense. His novel The Scarlet Tanager has been noted by the SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as a near-future thriller, while library and public-domain listings also preserve works such as The Barge of Haunted Lives and The Rhododendron Man.
He died in 1930. Although he is not widely known today, his work still survives through library catalogs and public-domain collections, where readers can glimpse the lively, plot-driven fiction that once earned him an audience.