Louis Tracy

Louis Tracy (1863–1928) was an English journalist and novelist who worked on newspapers in Yorkshire, Allahabad and London before turning to fiction. His future-war fantasy The Final War in 1896 was a success, and The Wings of the Morning in 1903, a shipwreck romance, was widely read and filmed. He produced some seventy novels of adventure, mystery and the supernatural, among them Karl Grier and A Son of the Immortals, and collaborated with M. P. Shiel on detective stories under the shared name Gordon Holmes. He worked for British propaganda in the United States during the First World War and died in New York.