Nationality U.S.A. Role Novelist Occupation Writer Died May 31, 1913 | Known for Novels Name Harry Sayler | |
Born 1863 Little York, Montgomery Co., Ohio Other names Ashton LamarElliott WhitneyGordon Stuart Books On the Edge of the Arctic: Or, The Air Ship Boys - Or - The Q, The Air Ship Boys Or - the Q, The Boy Scouts of the Air at, On the Edge of the Arctic; Or | ||
Harry Lincoln Sayler (1863–1913) was a newspaperman and novelist, under his own name and pseudonyms, including as a ghost writer for a popular youth fiction series.
Contents
- Boy Scouts of the Air series
- The Aeroplane Boys series
- The Airship Boys series
- Boys Big Game series
- References
Sayler graduated from DePauw University. He married June Elliott of Shelbyville, Indiana in 1889. They had two children. By occupation Sayler was a newsman, starting in 1886 in Indianapolis. By 1889 he was working in Chicago, eventually becoming general manager of the Chicago City News Bureau. Sayler was interested in history and became a member of the Illinois State Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Association, and the Louisiana Historical Association. He developed an expertise on the subject of pirates.
Sayler wrote three series of juvenile fiction relating to the then-novel technology of airplanes and flight. He wrote the Boy Scouts of the Air series under the pen name Gordon Stuart, the Aeroplane Boys series as Ashton Lamar, and the Airship Boys series under his own name.
Sayler also wrote for another juvenile series, the Boys' Big Game series, under the pseudonym Elliott Whitney.
Boy Scouts of the Air series
The Aeroplane Boys series
The Airship Boys series
The last volume in this series was not written by Sayler.