Harold Bindloss (1866–1945) was an British novelist who published an extensive list of adventure novels, mostly set in western Canada, West Africa, and England. He drew on his experiences as a seaman, a dock worker, and a farmer for his settings and characters, which gave his work a sense of realism missing from his contemporaries who wrote based on second-hand information.
Bindloss was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, England, eldest son of Edward Williams Bindloss, an iron merchant. He had three sisters and four brothers.
As a teenager, he went to sea and worked his way through the British African colonies before returning to England in 1896, suffering from malaria. The 1891 census reports him with his parents and working as an iron-merchant’s clerk (most likely for his father). Adventure
