Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (April 29, 1887 – May 6, 1949) was a Canadian-Americanhistorical,adventurefantasy,science fiction,crime andWestern writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.

Bedford-Jones was born inNapanee,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.^[2] After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writerWilliam Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writingdime novels andpulp magazine stories.^[3] Bedford-Jones was an enormously prolific writer; the pulp editorHarold Hersey once recalled meeting Bedford-Jones in Paris, where he was working on two novels simultaneously, each story on its own separate typewriter.^[3] Bedford-Jones citedAlexandre Dumas as his main influence, and wrote a sequel to Dumas'The Three Musketeers,D'Artagnan (1928).^[4] He wrote nearly 200 novels, 400 novelettes, and 800 short stories, earning the nickname "King of the Pulps". His works appeared in a number ofpulp magazines. Bedford-Jones' main publisher wasBlue Book magazine; he also appeared inAdventure, All American Fiction;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, andWeird Tales.

Bedford-Jones wrote numerous works of historical fiction dealing with several different eras, includingAncient Rome, theViking era, seventeenth century France and Canada during the "New France" era.^[3] Bedford-Jones produced several fantasy novels revolving aroundLost Worlds, includingThe Temple of the Ten (1921, with W. C. Robertson).^[3]

In addition to writing fiction, Bedford-Jones also worked as a journalist for theBoston Globe, and wrote poetry.^[3] Bedford-Jones was a friend ofErle Stanley Gardner,Vincent Starrett,^[5][6] andLemuel de Bra.^[7]

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• 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 inThe 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 inBlue 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 (withJack Woodford; introduction byRichard A. Lupoff 2012)

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