Samuel Benjamin Dickson

Samuel Benjamin Dickson was an American writer born in 1889. Records available here confirm his 1914 children's book Lady Rum-Di-Doodle-Dum's Children, and Project Gutenberg also lists the alias S. B. Dinkelspiel for that work.

He is also remembered for books about San Francisco. Later editions of Tales of San Francisco describe it as a gathering of three of his popular books—San Francisco Is Your Home, San Francisco Kaleidoscope, and The Streets of San Francisco—showing the range of his interest in the city's people, places, and stories.

The biographical details that could be confirmed from the sources are limited, but they do indicate a long writing life: a memorial record gives his dates as January 18, 1889, to February 18, 1974. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources I checked, so none is included here.