St. George Rathborne

Born on December 26, 1854, in Covington, Kentucky, St. George Henry Rathborne was an American author whose fiction reached generations of young readers. He attended Woodward High School in Cincinnati, married Jessie Fremont Conn in 1879, and later lived for much of his adult life in northern New Jersey.

Rathborne built an unusually large body of work, with sources crediting him with more than 330 volumes of fiction and suggesting the total may have been even higher. He was closely associated with Street & Smith for about 20 years as both an author and editor, and he became especially admired for outdoor adventure stories filled with action and movement.

He also wrote under a remarkable number of pseudonyms, including Harrison Adams and Herbert Carter, which makes the full extent of his work hard to pin down. After about 1910, he wrote mostly juvenile series books, and he remained a steady presence in popular fiction until late in life. He died in Newark, New Jersey, on December 16, 1938.