author
William Drysdale
1852–1901
A lively newspaperman turned storyteller, he brought late-19th-century travel, adventure, and city life to the page with an eye for vivid detail. His books range from travel writing and sea stories to fiction for young readers, shaped by years of reporting in the United States and abroad.
3 Audiobooks
Strange stories of the Civil War
by Robert Shackleton, L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden, William Drysdale, G. A. Forsyth, John Habberton, William J. Henderson, Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie, Howard Patterson
The Young Supercargo: A Story of the Merchant Marine
by William Drysdale
The young reporter : A story of Printing House Square
by William Drysdale
About the author
Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on July 11, 1852, William Drysdale built his career first as a journalist and then as an author. Reliable biographical sources describe him as an American writer and journalist who spent more than twenty years on the staff of The New York Times, working as an editor and foreign correspondent.
His reporting took him widely through Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, and the American South, and that travel fed directly into his books. He wrote works such as In Sunny Lands, The Princess of Montserrat, and a number of adventure stories for younger readers, including The Young Reporter and The Young Supercargo. Modern scholarship also remembers him as a sharp observer of the rise of leisure travel in places like Florida and the Bahamas.
Drysdale died in 1901, at just forty-nine years old. Although he is not widely known today, his writing preserves a vivid picture of journalism, travel, and popular storytelling in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.