Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, criminal, and Western writer, became a naturalized US citizen in 1908. Bedford-Jones was born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada, in 1887. His family relocated to the United States when he was a youngster, and he finally became a naturalized US citizen. Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories after his buddy, novelist William Wallace Cook, encouraged him to do so. Bedford-Jones was a prolific writer; pulp publisher Harold Hersey once recalled seeing him in Paris, where he was working on two novels at the same time, each on its own typewriter. Bedford-Jones' primary publisher was Blue Book magazine, and he also appeared in Adventure, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Short Stories, Top-Notch Magazine, The Magic Carpet/Oriental Stories, Golden Fleece Historical Adventure, Ace-High Magazine, People's Story Magazine, Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine, Detective Fiction Weekly, Western Story Magazine, and Weird Tales. Bedford-Jones wrote numerous works of historical fiction set in various eras, including Ancient Rome, the Viking age, seventeenth-century France, and Canada during the "New France" era. Bedford-Jones wrote several fantasy novels based on Lost Worlds, including The Temple of the Ten (1921, with W. C. Robertson).
