Harry Lincoln Sayler (1863–1913) was a newspaperman and novelist, under his own name and pseudonyms, including as a
ghost writer for a popular youth fiction series.
Sayler graduated from
DePauw University. He married June Elliott of
Shelbyville,
Indiana in 1889. They had two children. By occupation Sayler was a newsman, starting in 1886 in Indianapolis. By 1889 he was working in Chicago, eventually becoming general manager of the
City News Bureau of Chicago. Sayler was interested in history and became a member of the
Illinois State Historical Society, the
Chicago Historical Association, and the
Louisiana Historical Association. He developed an expertise on the subject of pirates.
Sayler wrote three series of juvenile fiction relating to the then-novel technology of airplanes and flight. He wrote the ''Boy Scouts of the Air'' series under the
pen name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
A pen na ...
Gordon Stuart, the ''Aeroplane Boys'' series as Ashton Lamar, and the ''Airship Boys'' series under his own name.
Sayler also wrote for another juvenile series, the ''Boys' Big Game'' series, under the pseudonym Elliott Whitney.
Works
''Boy Scouts of the Air'' series
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The Boy Scouts of the Air at Greenwood School (1912)The Boy Scouts of the Air in Belgium (1915)The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island (1917)Boy Scouts of the Air with Pershing (1919)The Boy Scouts of the Air at Cape Peril (1921)
''The Aeroplane Boys'' series
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*Lamar, Ashton (1912). ''When Scout Meets Scout; or, The Aeroplane Spy.''
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''The Airship Boys'' series
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The last volume in this series was not written by Sayler.
''Boys' Big Game'' series
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1863 births
1913 deaths
DePauw University alumni
American male writers