Breckenridge, Gerald
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1889-1964) US journalist and author (who may have been born Gerald Breitigam) of one of the more successful Radio Boys sequences, the Radio Boys novels beginning with The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty (1922). The titles of greatest sf interest are The Radio Boys Search for the Inca's Treasure (1922), a Lost Race tale, and The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis (1923), another Lost Race tale which locates the Atlantean city of Athenai (see Atlantis) in the Atlas Mountains. The go-getting Yankee Radio Boys soon put paid to an ancient oligarchy. The great Library of Atlantis, housed here, is (unusually) saved for the world. [JC]
Gerald Breckenridge
born Pennsylvania, 26 April 1889
died Richmond, Virginia: 5 August 1964
works
series
Radio Boys
- The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty (New York: A L Burt, 1922) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border (New York: A L Burt, 1922) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys Search for the Inca's Treasure (New York: A L Burt, 1922) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards (New York: A L Burt, 1922) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition (New York: A L Burt, 1922) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys in Darkest Africa (New York: A L Burt, 1923) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/P Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis (New York: A L Burt, 1923) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol (New York: A L Burt, 1924) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/Mead Schaeffer]
- The Radio Boys as Soldiers of Fortune (New York: A L Burt, 1925) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/C R Schaare]
- The Radio Boys with the Air Patrol (New York: A L Burt, 1931) [tie: Radio Boys: illus/hb/C R Schaare]
works as by Gerald Breitigam
- Chip Collins' Adventures on Bat Island (New York: Lynn Publishing Company, 1935) as Gerald Breitigam [in Big Little Book format: hb/]
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