About the Author
John Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952) was an English author who, with romance novelist Georgette Heyer, founded the Regency romantic genre. He lived with his American wife in the United States, where he worked as a scene painter, but later returned to England. He wrote more than forty books, including works of non-fiction and books for children; such as The Amateur Gentleman, Chronicles of the Imp, and The Lonely Road.