Perry Newberry

Born in 1870 and dying in 1938, Perry Newberry was an American writer closely associated with Colorado. Reliable sources available here identify him as a journalist, novelist, and public figure, and his surviving work reflects a strong interest in mining communities and Western life.

Newberry wrote fiction and nonfiction tied to the Rocky Mountain region. Among the works linked with him are The Black Boulder Claim and material connected with Alice in Wonderland, showing a career that ranged beyond straightforward reporting and into literary and theatrical interests.

He was also active in public life, and a portrait preserved on Wikimedia Commons identifies him as Mayor Perry Newberry. That combination of newspaper work, storytelling, and civic involvement helps explain the grounded, place-based quality of his writing.