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Richard Bird
1881–1965
An early 20th-century British novelist writing under the name Richard Bird, he is best remembered today for lively adventure fiction and school stories that have found new readers through digitized reprints. Bibliographic sources identify Richard Bird as the pseudonym of Walter Barradell-Smith.
1 Audiobook
The Gay Adventure: A Romance
by Richard Bird
About the author
Richard Bird was a British author born in 1881 and died in 1965. Reference indexes connect the name to Walter Barradell-Smith, identifying Richard Bird as a pseudonym rather than a separate authorial identity.
His work includes novels such as The Gay Adventure: A Romance, and later readers have also encountered titles like The Richard Bird Omnibus and several boys' stories and adventures from the first half of the 20th century. Because much of the surviving information is bibliographic rather than biographical, only a few personal details are easy to confirm with confidence.
That slight mystery is part of his appeal today: he survives mainly through the books themselves, especially in library records and public-domain archives that keep his fiction in circulation for modern readers.