Nuala O'Malley (Esprios Classics)

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (April 29 1887 - May 6 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 nearly 200 novels 400 novelettes and 800 short stories earning the nickname King of the Pulps.