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Henry James O’Brien was born on April 29, 1887, in Napanee, Ontario, Canada.He was the son of William John Wicliff and Henrietta Louise (Roblin) Bedford-Jones.
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Henry James O’Brien was born on April 29, 1887, in Napanee, Ontario, Canada.He was the son of William John Wicliff and Henrietta Louise (Roblin) Bedford-Jones.
Some of Bedford-Jones' works, as was customary at the time, were published in serial form in magazines and later bound between covers.
A major series of books that helped established Bedford-Jones’s professional career was a sequence of adventure novels that featured the protagonist John Solomon. Bedford-Jones published these in magazines (such as Argosy) under his own name, then in book form under the pseudonym Allan Hawkwood. These books are lost-world fantasies, according to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and comprise ten titles. Notable among them are 1915’s Gentleman Solomon and The Seal of Solomon.
A survey of Bedford-Jones’ works in several genres gives an indication of his productivity and versatility. His 1921 mystery novel The Mardi Gras Mystery boasts a complex plot in which the exploits of a jewel thief, the “Midnight Masquer,” turn out to be a decoy for the deeper espionage of protagonist Henry Gramont into oil property. Gramont traces the clues and arrests the members of a criminal organization, only to find that its leader. In the same year, Bedford-Jones published Mesa Trail.
An author capable of writing and publishing so many varied works of fiction was surely qualified to write a nonfiction book on the craft of writing; Bedford- Jones did so in 1922’s The Fiction Business, which was reissued in 1929 as This Fiction Business. According to a New York Times review of the book, the author recommends a hard-headed, businesslike approach to writing. He advises the novice to determine what category of fiction he or she would prove best at and then proceed to acquire skill with words, characters, and technique through sheer diligence.
Little of H. Bedford-Jones’ fiction is available to the general reader today, but he and other writers like him were the bedrock of popular fiction in their own time, helping to maintain an enthusiastic readership for publishing houses and thriving magazines, and thus providing the climate in which more enduringly celebrated writers could flourish.
In addition to writing fiction, Bedford-Jones also worked as a journalist for the Boston Globe, and wrote poetry.
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Bedford-Jones' second wife was Mary Bernardin of Chicago.