Arthur O. Friel

Arthur O. Friel

Arthur Olney Friel (1887-1959) was one of the most popular writers for the adventure pulps. He began appearing in Adventure magazine in 1919 with stories set in the Amazon jungle featuring the characters Pedro and Lourenço, two rubber-industry workers who undergo harrowing experiences in the impenetrable jungle surrounding the Javary River, an Amazon tributary which forms part of the border between Brazil and Peru. Friel, a 1909 Yale graduate, had been South American editor for the Associated Press which led him into his subject matter. In 1922, he became a real-life explorer when he took a six-month trip down Venezuela's Orinoco River and its tributary, the Ventuari River. His travel account was published in 1924 as The River of Seven Stars.

In late 1922, he began writing longer works, which were serialized in Adventure. The first ones, featuring a trio ofadventurers called McKay,Ryan and Knowlton, and other characters, were "The Pathless Trail" "Tiger River", "TheKing of No-Man's Land" and "Mountains of Mystery".A later story in the sequence "In the Year 2000" (Adventure 1928) was not published in book form; it is a science-fiction novel with racist overtones [E.f. Bleiler, Science Fiction, The Early Years,(1990) pgs. 266-7 ] .

After returning from the Venezuela trip, many of his stories were set in that environment. He remained a popular writer in Adventure throughout the '20s and '30s. Most of his longer works were republished in hardback. In the '30s, he started appearing more regularly in the adventure pulp Short Stories with stories set in Venezuela.

He was a member of the American Geographical Society [See "Introduction" toFriel's collection "Amazon Nights: Classic Adventure Tales from the Pulps" (2005) by Darrell Schweitzer. ]

He died in New Hampshire in 1959, the state where he had grown up.

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References:

Links: [http://community-2.webtv.net/OurManHermes/adventure/page5.html Reviews of the Pathless Trail and Tiger River]


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