M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger

M. M. Oblinger, whose full name was Milo Milton Oblinger, was a Canadian-born American writer remembered mainly for boys' adventure fiction. Reliable reference sources identify him as the author behind the pen name Milton Richards, and connect him especially with the Dick Kent books, a series of frontier and wilderness adventures set in the Far North.

His work was aimed at young readers and built around action, survival, and travel in rugged settings. Titles linked to him include Dick Kent with the Mounted Police, Dick Kent in the Far North, Dick Kent with the Eskimos, and The Valdmere Mystery; or, The Atomic Ray, showing that he also wrote at least one adventure with a science-fiction angle.

Some library-style listings give his birth year as 1900-, but genre reference sources instead describe him as 1890-1963. Because the available records conflict, it is safest to say that he was an early-20th-century adventure writer whose stories remained in circulation through reprints and public-domain editions.