Terhune, Albert Payson (1872–1942)

US writer. He wrote many magazine stories and is best known for his collie stories for young readers, such as ‘Lad, A Dog’ (1919). After studying at Columbia University (BA 1893), he toured Europe and the Near East with his mother, then returned to New York City to work as a reporter for the Evening World (1894–1914). From 1912 onwards, he lived at Sunnybank in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, where he had spent many summers as a child and which he used as the setting for many of his books.

Terhume was born in Newark, New Jersey. His mother was a successful writer of books on household management, and his father was a minister. Albert and his family lived in Europe (1876–78), returned to Springfield, Massachusetts (1878–84), and then settled in Brooklyn, New York.