Cyrus Townsend Brady

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861 – January 24, 1920) was a journalist, historian and adventure writer. His most well-known work is "Indian Fights and Fighters". He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. His second wife was Mary Barrett.

Brady's first major book "For Love of Country" whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy.

Brady died in Yonkers, New York of pneumonia at age 58.

Works

• The Island of Regeneration (1888)
• For Love of Country (1898)
• American Fights and Fighters (1900)
• Hohenzollern: A Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa (1901)
• The Southerners (1903)
• A Midshipman in the Pacific (1904)
• Indian Fights and Fighters (1904)
• Three Daughters of the Confederacy (1905)
• As the Sparks Fly Upward (1911)
• The Island of the Stairs (1913)
• By the World Forgot (1917)
• Bob Dashaway Privateersman (1911)
• The Patriots (1906)

References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 59. 

Many more titles by Cyrus Townsend Brady are listed in: American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography by Geoffrey D. Smith, pp. 75-78.

Sources

• Cyrus Townsend Brady at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Works by Cyrus Townsend Brady at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Brady, Cyrus Townsend
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Date of birth	December 20, 1861
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Date of death	January 24, 1920
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