George Randall Parrish (1858-1923) was an American author of dime novels. He studied law and became an assistant in a law office at Wichita, Kansas. Devoting much time to politics and having achieved a reputation as a public speaker, he was elected city attorney. His health breaking down from close confinement, he crossed the plains in 1882 with a cattle party, walking most of the way to Las Vegas, New Mexico. After suffering many hardships, he travelled to Colorado and a little later to Denver. He became a reporter with the Rocky Mountain News and began a newspaper career. In 1886, Parrish was persuaded to enter the Congregational ministry, and was given charge of 2 churches in Nebraska. In 1902 he resumed newspaper work in Chicago, being first connected with the Associated Press, and later engaged in commercial journalism. The following spring he published his first work of fiction, When Wilderness Was King (1903). His other works include: Prisoners of Chance (1908), Love Under Fire (1911), Gordon Craig (1912), Beyond the Frontier (1915) and The Devil's Own (1917).