The Coward: A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863

Henry Morford

Henry Morford was an American writer, editor, and newspaperman. Originally a local businessman and postmaster of his native New Monmouth, New Jersey, he wrote poetry while on break from work and published three poetry volumes: The Rest of Don Juan (1846), The Rhymes of Twenty Years (1859), and Rhymes of an Editor (1873). He wrote several novels, plays, and travel books, including a sequel to Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He owned the Democratic Banner and New Jersey Standard, and was editor of the New York Leader, Morford's Magazine, and Brooklyn New Monthly Magazine.