John T. (John Tyler) Wheelwright

Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1856, John Tyler Wheelwright was an American author whose surviving record today is tied mainly to his fiction and light verse. Public-domain author listings confirm his lifespan as 1856–1925 and identify him as a U.S. novelist.

Wheelwright is associated with a varied body of work, including A Bad Penny, War Children, A New Chance Acquaintance, and Rollo's Journey to Cambridge. He is also known as one of the collaborators on The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow, a multi-author novel created with Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, and Frederic Jesup Stimson.

What stands out most about his books is their playful tone: even when the stories lean into school life, adventure, or social comedy, they keep an easy, readable charm. For modern listeners, he offers a glimpse of late 19th- and early 20th-century American storytelling with a distinctly light touch.