Logan

John Neal's 1822 Gothic novel of frontier violence and revenge, published anonymously in Baltimore. The attribution is documented in Neal scholarship.

Original byline

Anonymous

Published

Date not recorded

Form

Novels

Authorship

Revealed: John Neal

Attribution source

Wikidata P50 (Q116457419); Wikipedia note

Reason for anonymity

Unrecorded

Copyright

Public domain

Reference

Wikipedia · Wikidata

The authorship story

Logan, A Family History appeared anonymously in Baltimore in 1822, a fevered Gothic of the frontier in which the wrongs done to an Indian chief's family return as madness and revenge. It was the first of the novels John Neal poured out in his Baltimore years, and its authorship is documented in Neal scholarship; his next book, Seventy-Six, was even credited on its title page to 'the author of Logan', chaining the anonymous books to each other rather than to a name. Neal treated bylines as tactics, and Logan is where the tactic began.

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