Matthew White

Born in 1857 and dying in 1940, Matthew White Jr. was an American author and editor remembered especially for his long connection with Argosy. Reliable library and reference sources identify him as both a writer and an editor, and surviving records of his books show that he published fiction under his own name.

White is most closely associated with Argosy, one of the key mass-market fiction magazines of its era. Periodical histories and bibliographic records place him as editor there for many years, making him part of the magazine culture that helped popular storytelling reach a huge audience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

His work also extended beyond editing. Catalog records list novels and story collections by him, showing a career that balanced shaping other writers' work with producing his own. That mix of editorial influence and authorship makes him an interesting figure in the history of American popular reading.