R. A. H. Goodyear

Robert Arthur Hanson (R.A.H.) Goodyear (1877 – 24 November 1948) was an English author of children's stories, primarily in a boys' school setting.

Born in Yorkshire, Goodyear attended Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in Barnsley. At age seventeen he was first published with a serial in The Boy's Friend periodical. In his career, he mostly produced popular fiction for boys, as well as sportswriting and guides for writers.

Bibliography

• Forge of Foxenby (1920)
• The Boys of Castle Cliff School (1921)
• The Boys of Tudorville (1921)
• Luckless Leo's Schooldays (1921)
• Tom and Tim at School (1921)
• Two Terms at Linglands (1921)
• The White House Boys (1922)
• The Four Schools (1922)
• The Greenway Heathens (1922)
• Topsy-Turvey Academy (1922)
• The Worst Boy in Town (1922)
• The Captain and the Kings (1923)
• Jack O' Langsett: A Public School Story (1923)
• The Life of the School (1923)
• Tom at Tollbar School (1923)
• The Fifth Form at Beck House (1924)
• Strickland of the Sixth (1928)

Further reading

• Banham, Christopher Mark (May 2006), Boys of England and Edwin J. Brett, 1866-99 (PDF), Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, School of History
• Goodyear, R.A.H. (February 1926), "An Old Boys Periodicals" (PDF), Vanity Fair, 2 (19): 83–85
• Goodyear, R.A.H. (November 1930), "An Early Coloured Boys' Periodical" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 4 (8): 7
• Goodyear, R.A.H. (June 1947), "Heart-Winning Old Boys' Books" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 5 (9): 131–33
• Goodyear, R.A.H. (September 1947), "Early Struggles of a Boy's Author" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 5 (10): 149–51
• Horton, Almon (May 1948), "R. A. H. Goodyear" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 5 (12): 179–80, 190
• Horton, Almon (October 1949), "The Career of a Popular Boy's Story Writer" (PDF), Story Paper Collector, 36 (2): 153–55