Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel The Cardinal, which Time magazine reported was "The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction.
"[1] Robinson was born in Boston and graduated from Columbia College in 1923 after serving in the US Navy during the First World War.
Three weeks later, on January 13, 1961, he died in New York of complications from the resulting second- and third-degree burns.
His best-known novel The Cardinal details the life of Stephen Fermoyle, a young American priest who eventually becomes a Prince of the Church.
An excerpt from that novel was adapted into a screenplay by Richard Carr and put to film by David Carradine in a movie called Americana.