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J. E. (John Ernest) Hodder-Williams
1876–1927
Best known for shaping moving, human stories out of real lives, this early 20th-century British writer and publisher worked across biography, war writing, and popular books. His name is closely linked with One Young Man and with biographies connected to the YMCA and Sir George Williams.
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Thomas Carlyle
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, J. E. (John Ernest) Hodder-Williams
About the author
John Ernest Hodder-Williams was a British author and publisher, born in Bromley, Kent, on September 16, 1876. Contemporary records identify him as Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams, and report that he was educated at the City of London School, University College London, and also studied in Paris and Berlin.
His published work ranged from biography to wartime nonfiction. Library and public-domain records connect him with The Life of Sir George Williams and The Father of the Red Triangle, both centered on the YMCA's founder, as well as One Young Man, a World War I narrative presented as the true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914 and was badly wounded on the Western Front.
Some catalogs also show that he wrote under the name "Happy, the King's Dog," suggesting a lighter side alongside his more serious historical and biographical work. He died in 1927.