Robert Watson

Born in Glasgow on May 20, 1882, Robert Watson moved to Canada in 1908 and worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Vancouver, Vernon, Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg. He later became editor of The Beaver, the company’s magazine, a role that helped place him at the center of western Canadian literary life.

Watson published a run of novels in the 1910s and 1920s, including My Brave and Gallant Gentlemen, The Girl of the O.K. Valley, The Spoilers of the Valley, and Gordon of the Lost Lagoon. He also wrote poetry and ballads, and at least one of his later books, High Hazard, reached into adventurous speculative fiction.

In 1933 he moved to California to continue screenwriting work in the film industry. He died in Laguna Beach, California, on January 13, 1948.