Author:Roy Norton

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Roy Norton
(1869–1942)

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American newspaperman and author of pulp fiction, including those in the western and science fiction genres. Regular contributor to magazines like Cosmopolitan, The Popular Magazine, etc. Sometimes wrote as Roy E. Norton

Works

Guilty: The Magazine-Gun Tragedy (1904; with William C. Hallowell) non-fiction (external scan)
The Vanishing Fleets, 1908 (external scan)
The Toll of the Sea, 1909 (first serialized in Popular Magazine, 1909 as The Land of the Lost)
The Garden of Fate, 1911 (external scan)
The Plunderer, illus. Douglas Duer, 1914 (external scan) Project Gutenberg
The Mediator, illus. Douglas Duer, 1916 (external scan)
The Boomers, illus. W. Goldbeck, 1914 (external scan)
The Man of Peace, 1915 (external scan)
The Flame. A story of what might have been, 1916
The Unknown Mr. Kent, 1916 (transcription project)
Drowned Gold, 1919
The Scamps, 1920
The Turned Worm 1920
Mixed Faces, 1921 (external scan) Project Gutenberg

Stories from periodicals

Novellas and novels

"The Golden Mocassins" (1911 Dec 01, Popular) (novel)
"The Reata" (1914 Feb 1, The Popular Magazine) (novel)
"The Glyphs" (novella) in Popular Magazine's, Sep 20, 1919
"The Shaman" (novel) in Popular 07 Feb 1922
"The Unknown Mr. Kent" in Blue Book Magazine, August 1916
"The Phantom U-Boat" (4-part serial) in Popular Magazine, Dec. 1916—
"The Benevolent Liar" (1917 Feb 26, Popular) (novel)
"The Crusader's Casket" (1924 April, Popular) (novel)
"The Great Samarkand" (1926 Nov–?, The Blue Book) (serial)

Short stories

"Old Bill Cupid" (1905 Mar, Red Book) (as Roy E. Norton) ss [Old Bill Slocum]
"Bill Slocum, Honest Smuggler" (1905 Apr, Red Book) (ss) [Old Bill Slocum]
"Capt. Bill Slocum, Retributor" (1905 July, Red Book) (as Roy E. Norton) ss [Old Bill Slocum]
"The Recoverer of Springs" (1906 Dec, Red Book) (ss)
"The Buckskin Shirt" (1906 Dec, Ainslee's)
"Sanders and the Dream Lady" (1907 Apr, Ainslee's)
"For a Woman's Need" (1907 Apr, Ainslee's)
"The Conquering of Socorro" (1907 May, Ainslee's)
"Sanders the Valiant" (1907 June, Ainslee's)
"The Desert's Breath" (1907, Appleton's)
"The Grand Reunion" (1907 August, Ainslee's)
"Packer Jim's Guardianship" (1907 Oct, Ainslee's)
"The Cresco Partners" in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Jun 1907
"The Eyes Of Terror" in Cosmopolitan, 1907
"A Life Partnership" in Harper's Monthly, Feb 1907
"Nodaswana" (1907 March, Ainslee's) (ss)
"The Greater Hate" (1907, Appleton's)
"His Right" (Sunday Magazine, 1908 Aug 30)
Beneficent Brigands, Sep 27, 1908
"Big Jim's Renunciation" in Cosmopolitan, Oct 1908
"King Cophetua of Klondyke" (1908 Dec, Success Magazine) (ss)
"Bill" in The Century
The Love of Peechecan, Sunday Magazine, Jan 11, 1909
"Leander's Rebellion" (1909 Feb, Ainslee's)
Voyagers Of The Night, Feb 7, 1909
"Without Capitulation" (1909 May 30, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"The Revelation" (1909 Sept 12, Sunday Magazine) (ss) [The Captains Three]
Mademoiselle Lucile Sunday Magazine, Oct 3, 1909 [The Captains Three]
His Gift, Dec 12, 1909 (1909 Dec 12, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"A Test of Skill" (1909 Dec 26, Sunday Magazine) (ss) [The Captains Three]
"Der Poys in Schiller's Haus" (1910 Jan 23, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"The Quitter" (1910 Feb 20, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"The Bauble" (1910 March 13, Sunday Magazine) (ss) [The Captains Three]
"How Music Came to Willow Creek" (1910 Aug 1, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
"Those Who Never Knew" (1910 Sept, Cosmopolitan)
The Masterful Hireling, Sunday Magazine, Dec 4, 1910
"The Embezzler" (Sunday Magazine, ca. 1909) (ss) [The Captains Three]
The Quaker, 1911
"The 'Mary Jane'" (1911 March 18, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
"The Garrulous and the Mute" (1912 Jan 14, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"General and Moonshiner" (1913 Jan 13, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"The War on Wassembi" (1913 Feb 16, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
The Thin Blue Line, May 25, 1913
"Gratitude" (1913 Dec, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
"And By These Deeds" (1913 Dec 14, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"Luck! Hard Luck!" (1914 Sept 15, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
"The Optimist" (1914 Oct 11, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"The Penitent" (1914 Oct 25, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"Loyalty" (1914 Nov 8, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"Honest Joe" (1914 Nov 22, Sunday Magazine) (ss)
"Captain Bill" in Collier's, Feb 19, 1916
"The Man Who Talked Too Much" in Popular Magazine, Nov 7, 1920 [David and Goliath]
"The Box" (1920 Nov 20, Popular) [David and Goliath]
"The Two Smiths" (1917 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
"The Quality of Mercy" (1918 April, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
"The Feud" (1919 Feb, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
"Old Harmless" (1920 Dec 07, Popular) (ss) [David and Goliath]
"Through the Snows" (1920 Dec 20, Popular) [David and Goliath]
"The Old 'Un" in Cosmopolitan, 1922
"To the Lights" in Blue Book, Nov 1922
"The Woman on the Beach" in Cosmopolitan, 1921
"The Loner" (1926 Jan, The Blue Book) (ss: with a portrait of the author)
"'A Cathcart or a Riggs?'" (1926 Oct 20, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
"The Experienced" (1926 Nov 20, The Popular Magazine) (ss)

Works about Norton

"Mineola, N. Y., June 29 …" in Evansville Courier and Press, 1942 - note of death

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1942, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 82 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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