# Henry Bedford-Jones

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (April 29, 1887 – May 6, 1949) was a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.

## Biography

Bedford-Jones was born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada in 1887. His family moved to the United States when he was a teenager and he eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen. After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer William Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories. Bedford-Jones was an enormously prolific writer; the pulp editor Harold Hersey once recalled meeting Bedford-Jones in Paris, where he was working on two novels simultaneously, each story on its own separate typewriter. Bedford-Jones cited Alexandre Dumas as his main influence, and wrote a sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan (1928). He wrote nearly 200 novels, 400 novelettes, and 800 short stories, earning the nickname "King of the Pulps". His works appeared in a number of pulp magazines. Bedford-Jones' main publisher was Blue Book magazine; he also appeared in Adventure, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Short Stories, Top-Notch Magazine, The Magic Carpet/Oriental Stories, Golden Fleece Historical Adventure, Ace-High Magazine, People's Story Magazine, Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine, Detective Fiction Weekly, Western Story Magazine, and Weird Tales.
Bedford-Jones wrote numerous works of historical fiction dealing with several different eras, including Ancient Rome, the Viking era, seventeenth century France and Canada during the "New France" era. Bedford-Jones produced several fantasy novels revolving around Lost Worlds, including The Temple of the Ten (1921, with W. C. Robertson).
In addition to writing fiction, Bedford-Jones also worked as a journalist for the Boston Globe, and wrote poetry. Bedford-Jones was a friend of Erle Stanley Gardner, Vincent Starrett, and Lemuel de Bra.

## Works

partial list
* Blood Royal (People's, 1914)
* John Solomon, Supercargo (Argosy, 1914) John Solomon #2
* Solomon's Quest (People's, 1915) John Solomon #3
* Gentleman Solomon (People's, 1915) John Solomon #4
* The Seal of John Solomon (Argosy, 1915) John Solomon #5
* Solomon's Carpet (Argosy, 1915) John Solomon #6
* The Shawl of Solomon (People's, 1917) John Solomon #9
* John Solomon, Retired (People's, 1917) John Solomon #11
* Sword Flame (All Story Weekly, 1918)
* The Ship of Shadows (Blue Book, February 1920)
* Arizona Argonauts (Short Stories, 1920)
* The Temple of the Ten (with W. C. Robertson, Adventure 1921, book form 1973)
* John Solomon (People's, 1921) John Solomon #13
* John Solomon, Incognito (People's, 1921) John Solomon #14
* Down the Coast of Barbary (Argosy, 1921)
* The Shadow (1922)
* Pirates' Gold (Adventures 1922)
* Splendour of the Gods (1924)
* The Star Woman (1924)
* The Cruise of the Pelican, (1924)
* The King's Passport (1925)
* D'Artagnan (Adventure, 1928)
* The Wizard of Atlas (1928)
* John Barry, New York : Creative Age Press Inc., [1947]
* The Opium Ship (2005) originally in The Thrill Book in 1919
* The House of Skulls and other Tales from the Pulps (2006)
* Blood Royal (2008)
* Pirates' Gold (2008)
* The Golden Goshawk (2009) Captain Dan Marquad series
* The Master of Dragons (2011) O'Neill and Burkett series
* The Rajah from Hell (2012)
* The Saga of Thady Shea (2013)
* Wilderness Trail (2013) originally in Blue Book in 1915
* The Sphinx Emerald (2014)
* The Devil's Bosun (2015)
* Treasure Seekers (2015)
* Gimlet-Eye Gunn (2016)
* Our Far-Flung Battle Line (2017)
* Warriors in Exile (2017)
* They Lived by the Sword (2017)
* The Beginning of Air Mail (2018)
* Ships and Men (2019)
* Young Kit Carson (2019)
* The Second Mate (2020)
Non-fiction
* This Fiction Business (1922, revised 1929)
* The Graduate Fictioneer (1932)
* Money Brawl: How to Write for Money and This Fiction Business (with Jack Woodford; introduction by Richard A. Lupoff 2012)

## Gallery

* Bedford-Jones's "Comrade Island" was the cover story in the January 1916 issue of The Argosy
* Bedford-Jones's novelette "Pearls from Macao" took the cover of the July 1933 issue of Magic Carpet
* Bedford-Jones's "The Artificial Honeymoon" was the cover story in the July 1940 Weird Tales