Louis Arundel

Louis Arundel was a house name used by American writer St. George Henry Rathborne, a prolific author of adventure fiction for young readers. Under this and other names, he produced many stories in the era when series books were a staple of popular reading for boys.

Books published as Louis Arundel include titles in the Motor Boat Boys series, which mixed travel, competition, and danger into quick-moving plots. The name is closely associated with the kind of energetic, cliffhanger-driven fiction that appeared in inexpensive editions and reached a wide audience.

Although little biographical detail about the pen name itself is foregrounded in modern reference sources, the work linked to Louis Arundel remains a useful snapshot of early mass-market children's literature in the United States: practical, action-heavy, and designed to keep readers turning pages.