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Wirt Gerrare
1862–1935
Best known as the pen name of William Oliver Greener, this British journalist and gun expert wrote both nonfiction and imaginative fiction, often drawing on travel, war, and unusual ideas. His books range from studies of Russia to supernatural tales and early speculative stories.
2 Audiobooks
The story of Moscow
by Wirt Gerrare
A secret agent in Port Arthur
by Wirt Gerrare
About the author
Writing as Wirt Gerrare, William Oliver Greener was a British journalist, weapons expert, and author born in 1862. Reference sources describe him as the son of the gunmaker William Wellington Greener, and note that he used the Gerrare name for most of his fiction and nonfiction.
His work moved across several fields with ease. He wrote on guns and shooting, produced travel and political books about Russia, and also published fiction, including supernatural and speculative stories such as Phantasms and Rufin's Legacy. That mix of practical expertise, reporting, and imagination gives his writing a distinctive turn-of-the-century character.
Gerrare died in 1935. Although he is not widely known today, his books still attract readers interested in Edwardian travel writing, occult fiction, and early science fiction.