author
James A. (James Albert) Frye
1863–1933
A soldier-writer with a gift for turning barracks life into lively stories, this Massachusetts officer wrote about volunteer service with humor, detail, and firsthand experience. His books bring the Spanish-American War era and army life into sharp, readable focus.
3 Audiobooks
From Headquarters: Odd Tales Picked up in the Volunteer Service
by James A. (James Albert) Frye
Fables of Field and Staff
by James A. (James Albert) Frye
The First regiment Massachusetts heavy artillery, United States volunteers, in the Spanish-American war of 1898
by James A. (James Albert) Frye
About the author
Born in Boston on May 5, 1863, James A. Frye—James Albert Frye—was an American author and military man from Massachusetts. Records connected with his life identify him as a colonel, and surviving materials tie him closely to military and veterans' affairs in the early 20th century.
He is best known for books drawn from army life, including Fables of Field and Staff, From Headquarters: Odd Tales Picked up in the Volunteer Service, and The First Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, United States Volunteers, in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Those works suggest the kind of writer he was: observant, practical, and interested in the strange, funny, and memorable details of service life as much as in official history.
Frye died in Keene, New Hampshire, on March 8, 1933. Today he is remembered mainly through the books he left behind, which preserve both the everyday texture and the larger history of American volunteer military service.