Thurlow Fraser

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable online sources during this search. What is clear is that Thurlow Fraser wrote The Call of the East: A Romance of Far Formosa, published in 1914.

The novel is set around Formosa (now Taiwan) and the Franco-Chinese War of 1884–85, and later editions and catalog records continue to identify Fraser as its author. An Internet Archive record also lists the author as Thurlow Fraser (1869–1926), but because detailed independent biographical sources were scarce, that date should be treated with some caution.

For readers, Fraser remains interesting less for a well-known public life than for this surviving work itself: an early-20th-century romance and adventure novel that reflects Western fascination with East Asia and the storytelling habits of its time.