What is H. Rider Haggard?
[[File:H-Rider-Haggard.jpg|thumb|right|150px|{{Center|Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard}}]] '''Henry Rider Haggard''' (1856–1925)<ref name=Powell186>''Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914'', eds. John Powell; Derek W. Blakeley; Tessa Powell (Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 2001), p. 186</ref> was an [[English people|English]] [[writer]]. He is best known for his [[Adventure fiction|adventure]] [[novel]]s. His novels were notable for their unusual [[invention]] and stories that kept people interested. His best novels were very [[wikt:popular|popular]] in his lifetime. They made the [[genre]] of [[adventure]] fiction popular again.<ref>Timothy Scott Hayes, ''Stories of Things Remote: (Re)placing the Self in 19th-century Adventure Fiction'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007), p. 30</ref> Haggard also wrote books about [[farming]] and [[emigration]]. Haggard lived in [[South Africa]] for six years when he was a young man. Many of his novels were set in [[Africa]], including ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1886), ''Allan Quatermain'' (1887) and ''She'' (1887).<ref>''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'', Seventh edition, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 1129</ref> In 1919, Haggard was [[knighted]] for his services to the [[British Empire]].<ref name=Powell186/> Haggard's [[autobiography]], ''The Days of My Life'', was [[Publishing|published]] in 1926 after he died.<ref>Christine L. Krueger; Book Builders LLC., ''Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries'' (New York: Facts On File, 2003), p. 152</ref> Morton Cohen's [[biography]] of Haggard was published in 1960. == References == {{commons}} {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Haggard, H Rider}} [[Category:English novelists]] [[Category:1856 births]] [[Category:1925 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}