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Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
(1876–1929)
 

Canada-born American author, playwright and one-time journalist, whose short stories were well regarded. Pen names: Harvey J. O'Higgins, Harvey O'Higgins

Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

Works

Fiction

  • The Smoke Eaters: A Story of Love and Youth: The Story of a Fire Crew (1905) hathitrust; IA
  • Don-A-Dreams (1906)
  • A Grand Army Man (1908) [1] illus Martin Justice IA
  • Old Clinkers, a story of the New York Fire Department (1909) (transcription project)
  • His Mother (1909) (novelette; also in Silent Sam and Other Stories, 1914 IA (microfilm)
  • The Beast (1910) ( By Judge Ben B. Lindsey as related to H.J.O'H) autobiographical hathitrust; IA
  • Julie Cane: a novel (1924) (first serialized in Harper's Magazine, 1924)
  • Clara Barron (1926)

Short Stories and Collections

Magazine stories

  • Stories included in Silent Sam and Other Stories
    • "The Doings of the Devil" (McClure's Magazine, Jun 1908; as "The Devil's Doings" in Silent Sam and Other Stories)
    • "The Exiles" (McClure's magazine, Mar 1906)
    • "The Hired Man" (Collier's, Feb 15, 1908)
    • "In the Musée" (Collier's, Nov 28, 1908)
    • "In War Time" (Collier's, Feb 13, 1909; as "During the War" in Silent Sam and Other Stories)
    • "In the Matter of Art" (Collier's, Mar 20, 1909)
    • "The Reporter" (Collier's, Oct 30, 1909)
    • "His Mother" (ss) The American Magazine, Aug 1909
  • Captain Kieghley ("Old Clinkers") stories[2]
    • "Captain Keighley's Men" (ss) The Century Magazine, Jan 1905
    • "A Question of Command" (ss) The Century Magazine, May 1906
    • "An Appeal to the Past," (ss) The Century Oct 1906

Plays

  • The Argyle Case; a drama in four acts (1912? 1927?), with Harriet Ford; written in co-operation with Detective William J. Burns [3]
  • The Dummy (1914), with Harriet Ford [Detective Barney] [4]
  • "When a Feller Needs a Friend"; a play in three acts (1920), with Harriet Ford, IA

Non-fiction

  • Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft (with Frank J. Cannon, 1911) PG
  • The German Whisper (1918) hathitrust
  • The Secret Springs (1920) IA psychoanalysis

Magazine articles:

  • "Detective William J. Burns' Great Cases" (selected articles of the series, in Mcclure's Magazine, May-Oct 1911) IA
    • The Dynamiters (McClure's Magazine Aug 1911)
    • A Promoter of Counterfeits (McClure's Magazine Sep 1911)
    • The Insurance Agent (McClure's Magazine Oct 1911)
  • "Lucia Ancilotti: from the field notes of a settlement worker" (Collier's, Dec 28, 1912) IA
  • "Scollard and the American Stage" (book review, The Century Magazine, Nov 1915)
  • "Caste in Criticism" (The Century Magazine, Mar 1916)
  • "Freedom of Speech" (The Century Magazine, Dec 1917)

Works about O'Higgins

Notes

  1. ↑ Based on the play by David Belasco, Marion Short and Pauline Phelps
  2. ↑ Most, or all, of these stories were reworked (quite heavily) to form separate chapters of the novel Old Clinkers (1909)
  3. ↑ A novel based on this play was written in 1913 by Arthur Hornblow
  4. ↑ Adapted into a Broadway play that ran from April to October 1914; was also filmed twice, as a silent in 1917 and a talkie in 1929.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1929, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also 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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