author
Wilbur Finley Fauley
1872–1942
A versatile early-20th-century American writer, he moved between travel writing, popular fiction, and a touch of science fiction. His work also reached the screen, with novels like Jenny Be Good adapted into silent films.
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Shuddering castle
by Wilbur Finley Fauley
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1872, he wrote under both Wilbur Finley Fauley and the simplified form Wilbur Fawley. His career seems to have ranged widely: sources connect him with journalism in New York, while surviving books show him publishing everything from the travel guide Seeing Europe on Sixty Dollars to romance, thrillers, and magazine-era popular fiction.
He is especially remembered today for Jenny Be Good (1919), which was adapted into the 1920 silent film of the same name, and for Queenie, another novel that made its way to the screen. Science-fiction readers also know him for Shuddering Castle (1936), a novel involving radio contact with Mars and an alien visit to Earth.
Fauley died in New York in 1942. Though he is not a household name now, his bibliography suggests a writer who was comfortable crossing genres and writing for a broad popular audience.