author

Richard Bonner

Best known for a lively run of early 1910s adventure stories, this elusive American writer imagined young inventors tackling wireless devices, flying ships, and other high-tech wonders of the era. Very little is firmly documented about the person behind the name, which only adds to the vintage pulp mystery.

6 Audiobooks

The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone

The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone

by Richard Bonner

The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat

The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat

by Richard Bonner

The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship

The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship

by Richard Bonner

The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun

The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun

by Richard Bonner

The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane

The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane

by Richard Bonner

The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph

The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph

by Richard Bonner

About the author

Richard Bonner is credited with a series of American boys' adventure novels from the early 20th century, especially the Boy Inventors books. Titles associated with the name include The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone, The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun, The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship, and The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat.

Reliable reference sources note that almost nothing is known about Bonner as a person. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says only that the name was attached to juvenile fiction and that little else can be established with confidence, while library and public-domain listings confirm the books themselves and their circulation.

That leaves the work to do most of the talking: fast-moving adventures built around invention, danger, and the excitement of new technology. For listeners who enjoy early science-flavored fiction and the spirit of dime-novel ingenuity, Bonner offers a glimpse of how the machine age fired the popular imagination.