author
W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
1869–1929
A prolific American storyteller of adventure fiction, he wrote westerns, sea tales, historical novels, and early speculative stories for popular readers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work also reached the screen, with several stories adapted into silent films.
5 Audiobooks
The quest of the Silver Swan: A land and sea tale for boys
by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
Swept Out to Sea; Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers
by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
From Sea to Sea; Or, Clint Webb's Cruise on the Windjammer
by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga
by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
The Trail Boys of the Plains; Or, The Hunt for the Big Buffalo
by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
About the author
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 3, 1869, Walter Bertram Foster wrote under the name W. Bert Foster and built a long career in popular fiction. He published extensively for magazines and book series, producing stories for young readers as well as action-driven novels set on the frontier, at sea, and in moments of historical conflict.
He is especially remembered for adventure titles such as The Eve of War and The Lost Expedition, and for his contributions to series fiction and dime-novel publishing. Reference sources also note that he wrote some speculative fiction, and several of his stories later served as the basis for silent films in the 1920s.
Foster died on April 26, 1929, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Although he is not widely known today, his fiction captures the fast-moving, serialized style that helped shape popular entertainment for an earlier generation of readers.