Author:George Bronson-Howard

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George Bronson-Howard
(1884–1922)

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American writer. Several of his works were made into films. He is also credited with lyrics and as a writer of several Broadway plays including Snobs. He featured a spy character named Yorke Norroy in a series of works appearing in serial form in magazines and books

Works

Norroy, Diplomatic Agent (1907) [Yorke Norroy]
Scars on the Southern Seas, a romance (1907)
God's Man (1915)
Slaves of the Lamp: Being the Adventures of Yorke Norroy in His Quest of the Four Jade Plates (1917) [Yorke Norroy]
Bird of Prey: Being Pages from the Book of Broadway (1918)
An Enemy to Society: A romance of yesterday and today. Illustrated by Arthur S. Covey (1911) (Also as a play, 1911)
The Devil's Book: being the full account of how the Book of the Betrayers came into the hands of Yorke Norroy, secret agent of the Department of State. Frontispiece by Paul Stahr (1920) [Yorke Norroy]
The Devil's Chaplain (1922) [Yorke Norroy]

Plays

The Only Law (with Wilson Mizner) (1909)
Spring Time (with Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson) (1910)
Snobs (1911)
An Enemy to Society (with Wilson Mizner) (1911)
Rhett Maryl (1912)
The Reef (with David Belasco) (1912)
The Red Light of Mars, or A Day in the Life of the Devil (1913)

Works from periodicals

"The Sultana of Zulon" (ss) in Everybody's Magazine, vol 12, 1905 Mar
"Blanding—Bad Man" (ss) in Everybody's Magazine, vol 12, 1905 June
"The Prophetic War Correspondent" (ss) in The Red Book Magazine, vol 5, 1905 Sep
"The First Love of the Saxon" (ss) in Everybody's Magazine, vol 13, 1905 Nov
"On the Desert Air" (ss) in The Red Book Magazine, vol 6, 1906 Apr
"The Man From Hongkong" (ss) in Munsey's Magazine, Vol 35, 1906 Aug
"That Sort of Thing Called Love" (ss) in Smith's Magazine, vol. 5, 1907 June
"The Pawn" (ss) in The Red Book Magazine, vol 9, 1907 Oct
"The Brotherhood of Suppression" (ss) in The Popular Magazine, 1907 Dec [Yorke Norroy]
"Seventeen Candles" (ss) in The Smart Set, 1908 Dec
"Aboard the B-25" (ss) in The Popular Magazine, 1919 Apr
"Her Father's Consent" (ss) in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 1922 Nov 11

Longer works and series

Plantagenet Hock: Hero (series) in The Popular Magazine, 1907
- "I. The Custom of the Country" (1907 May)
"Adventurers Extraordinary" (novella) in The Popular Magazine, 1907 Jan
"The Door of the Double-Dragon" (novella) in The Popular Magazine, 1907 Sep
"Further Chronicles of Norroy, Diplomatic Agent" (novelette) in The Popular Magazine, 1912 Nov 15 (First of an unnamed series)
Sextons of the Skeleton (series) in The Popular Magazine, 1909
- "I. The Test" (1909 Jan)
The Green Hour (2-part serial) in The Popular Magazine, 1913 [Yorke Norroy]
- "The Green Hour, Part I" (1913 Jan 01)
- "The Green Hour, Part II" (1913 Jan 15)
The Green Finch (2-part serial) in The Popular Magazine, 1913
- "Part I" (1913 Feb 18)
Pages from the Book of Broadway [Bird of Prey] (short story series, April 1913–Feb? 1914) in The Smart Set
- "The Palace of Wisdom", 1913 Sep
- "From the Memoirs of a Prominent Citizen" 1913 Oct
- "The Purple Phantasm" 1913 Nov
- "Cadge Dirksmelter, Dramatic Critic" 1913 Dec
- "The Parasite" (novella), 1914 Jan
The Black Book (series) in The Popular Magazine, 1918
- "IV. His Country or His Life" (1918 Jul 07)
The Master of the Mercenaries (series) in The Popular Magazine, 1919
- "II. Sable Wings" (1919 Sep 20)
The Devil's Chaplain (4-part serial) in The Popular Magazine, 1920
- Part I
- "Part II" (1920 Oct 20)
- Part III
- "Part IV" (1920 Nov 20)

Filmography

Snobs (1915 film)
The Social Pirates (1916)
The Perils of the Secret Service (1917), director
God's Man (1917)
Don't Shoot (1922)
Borrowed Finery (1925)
The Man from Headquarters (1928), wrote the novel

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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