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Jack Preston
b. 1888
Best known as one of the pen names of Canadian writer John Preston Buschlen, these early 20th-century books turn ordinary working life into lively fiction. The name Jack Preston appears on stories rooted in banking, social conditions, and everyday ambition.
2 Audiobooks
A Canadian Bankclerk
by Jack Preston
The Donkey, the Elephant, and the Goat at a Public Meeting
by Jack Preston
About the author
Writing as Jack Preston, John Preston Buschlen was a Canadian author born in 1888 and later also published under the names J. P. Buschlen, John Preston, A Flyer's Dad, and Don Juan.
His best-known work under this name is A Canadian Bankclerk, a novel set in the world of Canadian banking. Contemporary descriptions of the book say it was written to show readers what life was like "behind the wicket," giving his fiction a practical, observant feel alongside its storytelling.
Listings for Buschlen's work connect him with several books from the 1910s, including Behind the Wicket, Peter Bosten, and Finding His Balance; or, The Bank Clerk Who Came Back. Together, they suggest a writer interested in work, class, and the pressures of modern life in early 20th-century Canada.