author
James Raymond Elderdice
b. 1889
Best remembered for lively early-20th-century fiction, this American writer brought humor and campus spirit to stories that still feel energetic and easy to read. His best-known work, T. Haviland Hicks, Senior, helped preserve a snapshot of student life from another era.
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T. Haviland Hicks, Senior
by James Raymond Elderdice
About the author
Born in Baltimore on April 2, 1889, James Raymond Elderdice was an American journalist and author. Reference sources identify him as a newspaper man as well as a novelist, and later records connect him with proofreading work.
His most widely known book is T. Haviland Hicks, Senior, a college story first published in the 1910s and still circulated through public-domain and library collections. Another confirmed work is The Last Ditch: A Story of Panama and the Canal Zone, showing that his writing ranged beyond school fiction.
Elderdice died in 1967. Although detailed biographical information appears to be limited online, the surviving record points to a writer whose work captured popular themes of his day in a straightforward, entertaining style.