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Footner, Hulbert
William Hulbert Footner (1879–1944) was born in Hamilton, Canada, and immigrated to New York when he was nineteen. He wanted to be an actor, however after several bit parts, many rejections, and a few notices by critics—mostly negative in content—he decided to become an author. His first known published article, which appeared in Field and Stream, wasabout a canoe trip he took up the Hudson River to Albany. In 1905, he explored the upper Peace River country in Alberta, Canada, writing articles about his experiences for several New York and Canadian newspapers. He returned to Alberta in 1909 with a companion and explored the source of the Hay River in the Northwest Territories in a canvas boat.
Footner wrote a number of adventure stories based on those experiences, including the book, The Huntress, which a Hollywood studio adapted into a successful movie. During the early 1920s Hulbert Footner started writing detective stories and acquired a faithful following in America, the United Kingdom, and other countries. His most startling innovation at that early date was to make his investigator a woman.
His international success allowed Footner to indulge his passion for travel and for the next twenty years, off and on, he would leave his home, Charles Gift in Calvert County, Maryland, with his family and enjoy the pleasure of living in London, New York, Italy, and the French Riviera. Near the close of his career, he wrote a number of books about Maryland and Marylanders, including Rivers of the Eastern Shore.
