St George Henry Rathborne
BiographySt George Henry Rathborne (December 26, 1854–December 16, 1938), one of the most prolific of the dime novelists, also used the following pseudonyms: Harrison Adams, “A Private Detective,” Louis Arundel, Major Andy Burton, Herbert Carter, Oliver Lee Clifton, Dash Dale, Duke Duncan, Ward Edwards, Aleck Forbes, Jack Howard, Lieut. Keene, John Prentice Langley, W. B. Lawson, Col. Lawrence Leslie, Marline Manly, Archie McGregor, Mark Merrick, Marne Miller, Warne Miller, “Old Broadbrim,” Alexander Robertson M.D., Jack Sharpe, Gordon Stewart, Harry St George, Col. J. M. Travers, and possibly others.
Rathborne was born in Covington, Kentucky, to Gorges Lowther Rathborne and Margaret H. Robertson Rathborne. He attended Woodward High School, Cincinnati, the oldest public high school in the United States; married Jessie Fremont Conn in 1879, with whom he had four children; and lived most of his adult life in northern New Jersey, where he died in Newark.
Rathborne was most strongly associated with Street & Smith, with whom he spent 20 years as author and editor, but was also affiliated with various other dime novel publishers over the course of four decades, including Beadle and Adams, A. L. Burt, Hurst and Lee, Norman L. Munro, L. C. Page, Saalfield Publishing, and various newspapers that ran his work as serials. It is estimated that he wrote as many as 450 novels.
Bibliography (wildly incomplete)
Marching On; or, From the Rapidan to Cold Harbor (as Marline Manly, September 8, 1883)
In For The War; or, The Forts of the Mississippi (as Ward Edwards, December 22, 1883)
The Old Knapsack; or, Longstreet’s Mad Charge at Knoxville (as Marline Manly, August 13, 1887)
Young Voyagers on the Nile (1901)
At The Blue Devil Mine (as W. B. Lawson, 1903)
Adrift on a Junk (1905)
Down the Amazon (1905)
Young Castaways (1905)
Other links
Northern Illinois University Libraries
Wikipedia