Ernest Justin Jarrold (1848 – March 18, 1912) was the American author of a series of popular fictional stories about a boy named Mickey Finn.
[1] The "Mickey Finn" stories were published in newspapers across the United States, bringing nationwide fame to Jarrold.
When Jarrold was three years old, his family moved to New York and settled in the town of Kingston.
He eventually became a staff writer, and began writing short stories about a boy named "Mickey Finn" growing up in the Irish section of bucolic Rondout, New York, where he had lived previously with his wife and children.
He had several books published during his career, including collections of his Mickey Finn short stories.