Stephen Angus Douglas Cox

Born in 1863, Stephen Angus Douglas Cox was an American writer whose work is now best remembered through reprints and public-domain editions of his adventure fiction for younger readers. Library of Congress authority data and other catalog records identify him as Stephen Angus Douglas Cox, and place his life from 1863 to 1944.

Cox is especially associated with the Dare Boys books, including The Dare Boys of 1776, The Dare Boys in Vincennes, The Dare Boys in Virginia, and The Dare Boys with General Greene. Project Gutenberg and library listings show that these stories helped preserve his reputation as a writer of brisk, patriotic historical adventures.

He was also linked to popular juvenile serial fiction under the pen name Harry Moore. A University of Kansas library post notes that Stephen Angus Douglas Cox and later Cecil Burleigh ghostwrote entries in the Liberty Boys of '76 series, while authority records describe Cox as a former newspaper man in Humboldt, Kansas. No clearly verified portrait image was available from the sources I checked.