William Senior

Born in 1838, he was an English journalist and author who spent much of his career writing for newspapers and magazines. He is especially remembered for angling writing, and many readers knew him by the pen name Red Spinner.

His books include Travel and Trout in the Antipodes, drawn from experiences in Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as other works on fishing and outdoor life. That mix of journalism, travel, and sport gave his writing an easy, readable style that still appeals to people interested in nineteenth-century nature and travel writing.

He died in 1920. Today, he is mainly of interest as a distinctive voice in classic angling literature and as a journalist who turned firsthand experience into engaging, practical storytelling.