Thomas A. Faulkner

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable online sources. What can be verified is his published work: From the Ball-Room to Hell was issued in Chicago by The Henry Publishing Co. in 1892, and the Library of Congress describes it as an anti-dance treatise written by an ex-dancing master and devoted to condemning the waltz.

Library listings also connect him with The Lure of the Dance, published in Los Angeles in 1916. Taken together, these books suggest a writer deeply involved in public arguments about social dancing, morality, and popular entertainment during his era.

Because solid biographical records are scarce, the person behind the books remains somewhat shadowy. Even so, his work survives as a striking example of moral reform literature from a time when the ballroom could be treated as a serious cultural battleground.