T. Howard (Thomas Howard) Kelly

Born on June 26, 1895, in Fernandina Beach, Florida, T. Howard Kelly wrote under the fuller name Thomas Howard Kelly. He is associated today with What Outfit, Buddy?, a book published in 1920 and now preserved by Project Gutenberg and major library catalogs.

That book centers on an American private in France during World War I and is remembered for its mix of military realism, humor, and close attention to the experience of ordinary soldiers. Kelly also received screen credit for the 1925 films Lover's Island and His Buddy's Wife, showing that his writing reached beyond the page.

Kelly died on July 24, 1967, and was buried at Bosque Bello Cemetery in Fernandina Beach. While detailed biographical information about his life is limited in widely available sources, his surviving work still gives readers a vivid sense of the era he wrote about.