Alfred Ollivant (writer)

Ollivant also published about a dozen other novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical stories.

Alfred Ollivant was born in Nuthurst, Sussex, in 1874 and became an author after a horse-riding injury ended his brief military career.

Set in rural Cumbria, in northern England, the novel concerns a suspected sheepkilling collie, Bob.

Even though most of the book's dialogue is written in the Cumbrian dialect, it became popular in the United States.

He was also a short story contributor to the magazines The Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Evening Transcript.