Frank Richards was just one pseudonym of Charles Harold St John
Hamilton. The most prolific boys' fiction author of all time according
to the Guinness Book of Records. Pen-names listed in 'The Men Behind
Boys' Fiction' by Bill Lofts and Derek Adley include Harry Clifton,
Martin Clifford, Clifford Clive, Sir Alan Cobham, Owen Conquest, Gordon
Conway, Harry Dorian, Frank Drake, Freeman Fox, Hamilton Greening,
Cecil Herbert, Prosper Howard, Robert Jennings, Gillingham Jones, T
Harcourt Lewelyn, Clifford Owen, Ralph Redway, Ridley Redway, Frank
Richards, Hilda Richards, Raleigh Robbins, Robert Rogers, Eric
Stanhope, Robert Stanley, Nigel Wallace and Talbot Wynyard.
