author
Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
1863–1944
Best remembered for fast-moving historical adventures, this American writer helped bring the Revolutionary era to young readers through the popular Dare Boys stories. His books mix battlefield action, spies, and friendship with an easy storytelling style that still feels lively today.
5 Audiobooks
The Dare Boys of 1776
by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
The Dare Boys in Vincennes
by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
The Dare Boys with General Greene
by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
The Dare Boys in Virginia
by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
Harry's newspaper : or, The young publisher
by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
About the author
Born in 1863, Stephen Angus Douglas Cox was an American author whose work is now best known through early twentieth-century adventure fiction. Library and catalog records identify his full name as Stephen Angus Douglas Cox and give his life dates as 1863 to 1944.
Cox is closely associated with the Dare Boys books, a series of Revolutionary War adventures that includes titles such as The Dare Boys of 1776, The Dare Boys in Virginia, The Dare Boys with General Greene, and The Dare Boys in Vincennes. Surviving listings from Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page show that these stories remained widely circulated and have continued to find new readers in digital form.
Some archival material also links him to the world of dime novels and boys' series fiction more broadly. A University of Kansas special collections post notes that he was one of the writers working behind the scenes on The Liberty Boys of '76 stories under the pen name Harry Moore, which helps place him in the bustling popular-fiction culture of his time.