John Bloundelle-Burton

Born in Southampton around 1850, John Edward Bloundelle-Burton became an English novelist after working in journalism, including for The London Standard. He began publishing fiction in the 1880s and built a remarkably large body of work over the rest of his career.

His novels were especially drawn to adventure, romance, and historical settings. Readers will often find sea voyages, political plots, duels, disguises, and the atmosphere of earlier Europe in his books, with some titles also touching the edge of speculative fiction.

Bloundelle-Burton died in London on December 11, 1917. Though he is less widely known today than some of his contemporaries, his fiction still offers the brisk pacing and colorful historical adventure that many classic-story listeners enjoy.