J. Henry Harris

John Henry Harris was a British author born on September 10, 1875, in Birmingham, England, and he died on March 18, 1962, in Woking, Surrey. Reference works identify him as a UK writer who set much of his fiction in Cornwall, and bibliographic sources show a varied body of work published under the name J. Henry Harris.

His writing is especially associated with Cornwall. Sources on his life and work describe him as a journalist as well as a novelist, and note that books such as Cornish Saints and Sinners and Luck of Wheal Veor draw on Cornish places, legends, and everyday life. In The Young Journalist, he also wrote from professional experience, saying he had worked as a journalist for many years.

Harris was not limited to regional writing. Science-fiction reference sources still remember him for A Romance in Radium (1906), an unusual early speculative novel. That mix of practical journalism, regional storytelling, and imaginative fiction makes him an interesting rediscovery for modern readers.