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H. Bedford-Jones


Born
in Napanee, Ontario, Canada
April 29, 1887

Died
May 06, 1949


Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. 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 over 100 novels, earning the nickname "King of the Pul ...more

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“those strangely uncompleted things which go to make up life—”
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“Like many another who had passed through the Great War, she now laughed at the worst which the world might proffer. “One who has been through hell,” she would say, laughing, “does not fear purgatory, eh?” And this was true, Rosemonde feared nothing.”
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“He lived always in the past, never in the present. He was cut out for an academic life, where he could be walled in with his books out of the world, and could peacefully study and run down and transfix some hapless word or subject, until he had it feeding out of his hand.”
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