H. Bedford-Jones
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H. Bedford-Jones

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- Full name
- Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones.
- Born
- 1887. · Greater Napanee.
- Died
- 1949. · Beverly Hills.
- Nationality
- Canada and United States.
- Occupation
- novelist, poet and science fiction writer.
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Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian novelist, poet and science fiction writer.

Cover page of Adventure magazine, 30 Oct 1924. A setting sun; a bullocks-drawn caravan in the early days of the California gold rush.
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- 1.Ashley, Michael. Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction. Elm tree Books. 30. 1978.
- 2.Clute, John. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. St. Martin's Griffin. 101–102. 1995. 0-312-13486-X.
- 3.Mike Ashley, "Bedford Jones, H(enry James O'Brien)", in St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers, edited by David Pringle, St. James Press, 1996, , p. 51-3.
- 4.Bernard A. Drew, Literary afterlife: the posthumous continuations of 325 authors' fictional characters. McFarland, 2010, (pp. 43-44).
- 5.H. Bedford-Jones: "King of the Pulps" by Peter Ruber
- 6.Vincent Starrett, Born in a bookshop; chapters from the Chicago Renascence. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press,1965.
- 7."The Government Agent in Fiction by Lemuel L. de Bra, Former Government Agent", Story World and Photodramatist, vol. 5, Issues 1-5 (1923), pp. 51–53
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