Roy Lester James

Born in 1884, Roy Lester James is a little-known American author whose work survives mainly through a small number of library and public-domain records. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of Letters From an Old Time Salesman to His Son, suggesting that his writing drew on his experience and voice as a salesman rather than on a long literary career.

Available records outside publishing catalogs are sparse, but a memorial record identifies him as Roy Lester James (1884–1944) and describes him as a retired vice-president and sales manager for Libby, McNeill & Libby, with earlier work at Swift & Co. Taken together, those sources point to a writer whose published work likely grew out of business life, personal counsel, and the plainspoken tone of practical correspondence.

Because so little biographical material is readily confirmed, the picture that remains is necessarily modest: a man of the business world who left behind at least one advice-centered book, now preserved in digital archives for modern readers.