Henry Leverage (died 1931) was a writer of stories and pulp fiction novels. His storytelling extended to accounts of his own life. Two films were adapted from his writings. [1]
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His father was an engineer who invented streetcar technology. Leverage served time in Sing Sing prison and was able to write during his sentence. A prison reformer managed the prison and Leverage wrote about his work. He was editor in chief of the prison newspaper The Star of Hope. [2] He was also known as David Carroll Henry.
He wrote a series of entries on underworld slang for Flynn's Weekly that was later compiled into a book. [3]
His stories were published in Argosy All-Stories and other publications.
Harold Hersey visited him at Sing Sing [4] and Leverage's stories were published in his Gangster Stories . He was also published in Blue Book .
His second novel, The White Cipher involved Scotland Yard and the London underworld. [5] His novel Ice Pilot is about whaling with romance mixed in. [6]