H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist whose popular adventure romances helped shape late Victorian popular fiction. Born in Bradenham, Norfolk, he spent several formative years in southern Africa, experiences that informed his depictions of colonial settings and lost worlds. He achieved major success with *King Solomon’s Mines* (1885), introducing the hunter-adventurer Allan Quatermain, and followed it with *She* (1887), one of his most enduring works. Haggard wrote prolifically across fiction and nonfiction, often blending action, romance, and the supernatural. He was knighted in 1912 and died in London in 1925.