Harold Frederic (1856 - 1898) was an American journalist and novelist. He wrote several early stories, but it was not until he published The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896), that his gifts as a novelist were fully realized. In this book: The Market Place, (1899) The Damnation of Theron Ware, (1896) In the Valley, a story of 1777, (1890) The Deserter, and Other Stories A Book of Two Wars (1898) The Copperhead, (1893) Brother Sebastian's Friendship (1905)