Henry Rider Haggard
Born	(1856-06-22)22 June 1856 Bradenham, Norfolk, England
Died	14 May 1925(1925-05-14) (aged 68) London, England
Occupation	Novelist, scholar
Nationality	British
Period	19th & 20th century
Genres	Adventure, fantasy, fables, romance, sci-fi, historical
Subjects	Africa
Notable work(s)	King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain Series, She: A History of Adventure
Influences Robert Louis Stevenson,
Influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs, C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Carl Jung, Joseph Conrad, Henry Miller, Rudyard Kipling, George Lucas,
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was born into a Jewish family. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his older brothers who graduated from various private schools, he attended Ipswich Grammar School.^[1] This was because^[2] his father, who perhaps regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much,^[3] could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam, he was sent to a private crammer in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office,^[1] for which he never sat. During his two years in London he came into contact with people interested in the study of psychical phenomena.^[4]

South Africa, 1875–1882[link]

In 1875, Haggard's father sent him^[5] to what is now South Africa, to take up an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal. In 1876 he was transferred to the staff of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, Special Commissioner for the Transvaal. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria in April 1877 for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. Indeed, Haggard raised the Union flag and read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty.^[6]

At about that time, Haggard fell in love with Mary Elizabeth "Lilly" Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in Africa. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, and wrote to his father informing him that he intended to return to England and marry her. His father forbade it until Haggard had made a career for himself, and by 1879 Jackson had married Frank Archer, a well-to-do banker. When Haggard eventually returned to England, he married a friend of his sister, (Mariana) Louisa Margitson in 1880, and the couple travelled to Africa together. They had a son named Jack (who died of measles at age 10) and three daughters, Angela, Dorothy and Lilias. Lilias became an author, edited The Rabbit Skin Cap and I Walked By Night, and wrote a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left (published in 1951).

Haggard in England, 1882–1925[link]

Moving back to England in 1882 (according to H.d.R. the return was in autumn 1881 and they had been living in Newcastle, Natal), the couple settled in Ditchingham, Norfolk, Louisa's ancestral home. Later they lived in Kessingland and had connections with the church in Bungay, Suffolk. Haggard turned to the study of law and was called to the bar in 1884. His practice of law was desultory, and much of his time was taken up by the writing of novels, which he saw as being more profitable. Rider Haggard lived at 69 Gunterstone Road in Hammersmith, London, from mid 1885 to circa April 1888. It was at this Hammersmith address that he completed King Solomon's Mines (published September 1885).^[7] Heavily influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa (most notably Frederick Selous and Frederick Russell Burnham), the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilisations of the continent, such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures.^[8][9] Three of his books, The Wizard (1896), Elissa; the Doom of Zimbabwe (1899), and Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu Idyll (1900), are dedicated to Burnham's daughter, Nada, the first white child born in Bulawayo; she had been named after Haggard's 1892 book Nada the Lily.^[10]

Aid for Lilly Archer[link]

Years later, when Haggard was a successful novelist, he was contacted by his former love, Lilly Archer, née Jackson. She had been deserted by her husband, who had embezzled funds entrusted to him and he had fled, bankrupt, to Africa. Haggard installed her and her sons in a house and saw to the children's education. Lilly eventually followed her husband to Africa, where he infected her with syphilis before dying of it himself. Lilly returned to England in late 1907, where Haggard again supported her until her death on 22 April 1909. These details were not generally known until the publication of Haggard's 1981 biography by Sydney Higgins.^[11]

Public affairs and honours[link]

Haggard was heavily involved in reforming agriculture and was a member of many commissions on land use and related affairs, work that involved several trips to the Colonies and Dominions.^[12]He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in the 1895 summer election, losing by only 198 votes. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named after him.

Writing career[link]

Haggard is most famous as the author of the novels King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, and She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (the action of Ayesha however happens in Tibet). The hugely popular King Solomon's Mines is sometimes considered the first of the Lost World genre.^[13] She is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature^[14] and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the best-selling books of all time.^[15] He is also remembered for Nada the Lily (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking romance, Eric Brighteyes.

While his novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism, they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically, though not invariably, European. Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and Ignosi, the rightful king of Kukuanaland, in King Solomon's Mines. Having developed an intense mutual friendship with the three Englishmen who help him regain his throne, he accepts their advice and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary capital punishment. Three of Haggard's novels were written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.

Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. At the end of his life he was a staunch opponent of Bolshevism, a position he shared with his friend Rudyard Kipling. The two had bonded upon Kipling's arrival at London in 1889 largely on the strength of their shared opinions, and the two remained lifelong friends.

Reputation and legacy[link]

Haggard's stories are still widely read today. Ayesha, the female protagonist of She, has been cited as a prototype by psychoanalysts as different as Sigmund Freud (in The Interpretation of Dreams) and Carl Jung. Her epithet "She Who Must Be Obeyed" is used by British author John Mortimer in his Rumpole of the Bailey series as the private name which the lead character uses for his wife, Hilda, before whom he trembles at home (despite the fact that he is a barrister with some skill in court). Haggard's Lost World genre influenced popular American pulp writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy, Philip José Farmer, and Abraham Merritt.^[16] Allan Quatermain, the adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American character Indiana Jones, featuring in the films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.^[17][18][19] Quatermain has gained recent popularity thanks to being a main character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Haggard was praised in 1965 by Roger Lancelyn Green, one of the Oxford Inklings, as a writer of a consistently high level of "literary skill and sheer imaginative power" and a co-originator with Robert Louis Stevenson of the Age of the Story Tellers.^[20]

The first chapter of his book People of the Mist is credited with inspiring the motto of the Royal Air Force, formerly the Royal Flying Corps. ^[21]

Influence on Children's Literature in the 19th Century[link]

During the 19th century, Haggard was one of many individuals who contributed to children’s literature. Morton N. Cohen describes King Solomon’s Mines as “[a] story [that] ha[s] universal interest, for grown-ups as well as youngsters”.^[22] Haggard himself wanted to write the book for boys, but it would ultimately have an influence on children and adults around the world. Cohen explains that, “King Solomon’s Mines was being read in the public schools [and] aloud in class-rooms”.^[22]

Chronology of works[link]

• King Solomon's Mines (1885)
• Allan Quatermain (1887)
• She (1887)
• Cleopatra (1889)
• The World's Desire (1890); co-written with Andrew Lang
• Eric Brighteyes (1891)
• Nada the Lily (1892)
• Montezuma's Daughter (1893); co-written with Andrew Lang
• The People of the Mist (1894)
• The Brethren (1904)
• Ayesha: The Return of She (1905)
• She and Allan (1921)

Published works

• Cetywayo and his White Neighbours; Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal (1882);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Dawn (1884);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Witch's Head (1884); online version at Wikisource
• King Solomon's Mines (1885);
• online version at Project Gutenberg; Public domain Audiobook at LibriVox.org, and also at Audiobooksforfree.com
• Hunter Quatermain's Story (1885);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Long Odds (1886);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• She (1887);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Jess (1887);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Allan Quatermain (1887);
• online version at Project Gutenberg; Public domain Audiobook at LibriVox.org
• A Tale of Three Lions (1887);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Mr. Meeson's Will (1888);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Maiwa's Revenge (1888);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• My Fellow Laborer and the Wreck of the Copeland (1888)
• Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1888);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Cleopatra (1889);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Allan's Wife (1889);
• online version at Project Gutenberg; Public domain Audiobook at LibriVox.org
• Beatrice (1890);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The World's Desire (1890); co-written with Andrew Lang;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Eric Brighteyes (1891);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Nada the Lily (1892);
• online version) at Project Gutenberg
• Montezuma's Daughter (1893); co-written with Andrew Lang;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The People of the Mist (1894);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Joan Haste (1895); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Heart of the World (1895); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia; Public domain Audiobook at LibriVox.org
• Church and State (1895)
• The Wizard (1896);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Doctor Therne (1898);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Swallow (1898);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• A Farmer's Year (1899)
• The Last Boer War (1899)
• The Spring of Lion (1899)
• Elissa; the doom of Zimbabwe (1899);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu idyll (1900);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The New South Africa (1900)
• A Winter Pilgrimage (1901); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Lysbeth (1901);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Rural England (1902)
• Pearl Maiden (1903);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Stella Fregelius (1904); co-written with Andrew Lang;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Brethren (1904);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Poor and the Land (1905)
• Ayesha: The Return of She (1905);
• online version at Project Gutenberg; Public domain Audiobook at LibriVox.org
• A Gardener's Year (1905)
• Report of Salvation Army Colonies (1905)
• The Way of the Spirit (1906)
• Benita (1906);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Fair Margaret (1907);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Ghost Kings (1908);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Yellow God (1908);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Lady of Blossholme (1909);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Queen Sheba's Ring (1910);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Regeneration: An account of the social work of the Salvation Army (1910);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Morning Star(1910);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Red Eve (1911);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Mahatma and the Hare (1911);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Rural Denmark (1911)
• Marie (1912);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Child of Storm (1913);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Wanderer's Necklace (1914);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• A Call to Arms (1914)
• Allan and The Holy Flower (1915);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-Service Men (1916)
• The Ivory Child (1916);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Finished (1917)
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Love Eternal (1918);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Moon of Israel (1918);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• When the World Shook (1919);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Ancient Allan (1920);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Smith and the Pharaohs (1920);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• She and Allan (1921);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Virgin of the Sun (1922);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Wisdom's Daughter (1923); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Heu-Heu (1924); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Queen of the Dawn (1925); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• The Days of my Life: An autobiography of Sir H. Rider Haggard (1926); online version: volume 1 & volume 2 at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Treasure of the Lake (1926); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Allan and the Ice Gods (1927); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Mary of Marion Isle (1929); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Belshazzar (1930); online version at Project Gutenberg Australia

Publication dates unknown

• Stories by English Authors (as contributor);
• online version at Project Gutenberg

Allan Quatermain series[link]

Allan Quatermain orders his men to fire in this illustration by Thure de Thulstrup from Maiwa's Revenge (1888).

• King Solomon's Mines;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Allan Quatermain;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Allan's Wife & Other Tales;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Marie;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Child of Storm;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Allan and The Holy Flower;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Finished;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Ivory Child;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• The Ancient Allan;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• She and Allan;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Heu-heu: or The Monster; online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• The Treasure of the Lake; online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Allan and the Ice-gods; online version at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Magepa the Buck (included in the collection Smith and the Pharaohs);
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• A Tale of Three Lions;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Hunter Quatermain's Story;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Long Odds;
• online version at Project Gutenberg

Ayesha series[link]

• She;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Ayesha: The Return of She;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• She and Allan;
• online version at Project Gutenberg
• Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed; online version at Project Gutenberg Australia

See also[link]

Biography portal

• Louis Henri Boussenard (1847–1911), French author of adventure novels, dubbed the French Rider Haggard during his lifetime.
• Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870), French author of historical novels of high adventure.
• Anthony Hope (1863–1933), English author of adventure novels such as The Prisoner of Zenda.
• P. C. Wren (1875–1941), was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal.
• Mythopoeia (genre)

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} Haggard, H. Rider (1989). "Introduction and Chronology; by Dennis Butts. In:". King Solomon's Mines. Oxford University Press. vii–xxviii. 
2. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". King Solomon's Mines. Modern Library Paperback Edition. v.
3. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". King Solomon's Mines. Modern Library Paperback Edition. vi.
4. ^ H.d.R. [Memoir of Haggard]. In: Haggard, H. Rider (1957) Ayesha. London: Collins
5. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". King Solomon's Mines. Modern Library Paperback Edition. vi.
6. ^ Pakenham, Thomas (1992) The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876–1912, Avon Books, New York. ISBN 0-380-71999-1.
7. ^ Eagles, Dorothy, and Carnell, Hilary, eds. (1978) The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-869123-8 p. 188
8. ^ Mandiringana, E.; Stapleton, T. J. (1998). "The Literary Legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous". History in Africa (African Studies Association) 25: 199–218. DOI:10.2307/3172188. JSTOR 3172188. 
9. ^ Pearson, Edmund Lester. "Theodore Roosevelt, Chapter XI: The Lion Hunter". Humanities Web. http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=s&p=l&a=c&ID=1144&o=. Retrieved 18 December 2006. 
10. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (1926) (txt). The Days of My Life Volume II. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300141.txt. Retrieved 17 December 2006. 
11. ^ D.S. Higgins. Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller. London: Cassell, 1981. ISBN 0-304-30827-7
12. ^ Cohen, Morton N. . "Serving the Empire." Rider Haggard His life and works. New York: Walker and Company, 1961. 239-285. Print.
13. ^ According to Robert E. Morsberger in the "Afterword" of King Solomon's Mines, The Reader's Digest (1993).
14. ^ http://www.gordon-fernandes.com/hp-lovecraft/Supernatural%20Horror%20In%20Literature%20by%20H_%20P_%20Lovecraft.htm H.P. Lovecraft has stated in his seminal essay Supernatural Horror in Literature: The romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition here represented was carried far down the nineteenth century by such authors as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Wilkie Collins, the late Sir H. Rider Haggard (whose She is really remarkably good), Sir A. Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson
15. ^ Time on She: "Since then it has sold 83 million copies in 44 languages." (17 September 1965)
16. ^ See Lee Server, Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (2002), pg.131.
17. ^ http://www.violetbooks.com/cinema-haggard.html "The entire Indiana Jones franchise – films, television's Young Indiana Jones, books, games, comics, merchandise, Disneyland adventure-ride, & Indy imitations such as Romancing the Stone – owes everything to H. Rider Haggard as filtered through lowbudget film serials (themselves frequently inspired by Haggard). Harrison Ford plays Indiana Jones as a hyperactive American version of Allan Quatermain".
18. ^ The Republic Serials were most strongly influenced by Sir Henry Rider Haggard's "white man explores savage Africa" stories, in particular King Solomon's Mines (1886)http://www.moongadget.com/origins/general.html
19. ^ http://www.superheroflix.com/news/NE0ab607ewPH26 "Based on a 1885 novel by Henry Rider Haggard, the exploits of Alan Quatermain have long served as a template for the Indiana Jones character. In this particular film, King Solomon's Mines (1950), Quatermain finds himself unwillingly thrust into a worldwide search for the legendary mines of King Solomon. The look and feel of Indiana and his past adventures are quite apparent here, and his new quest follows some very similar through lines. Like Quatermain, Jones is reluctantly forced into helping the Russians find the Lost Temple of Akator and the Crystal Skulls mentioned in the film's title. Both Quatermain and Jones are confronted by angry villagers and a myriad of dangerous booby traps. Look to King Solomon's Mines for a good idea on the feel and tone Lucas and Spielberg are after with their latest Indiana Jones outing".
20. ^ from the introduction to the 1965 Everyman's Library edition of the one-volume The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
21. ^ http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/theroyalairforcemotto.cfm
22. ^ ^{a b} Cohen, Morton N."The Tale of African Adventure." Rider Haggard: His Life and Works. New York: Walker and Company, 1961. 89-95. Print.

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v t e Works by Sir Henry Rider Haggard Fiction 1880s Dawn (1884) The Witch's Head (1884) King Solomon's Mines (1885) Hunter Quatermain's Story (1885) Long Odds (1886) She (1886) Jess (1886) Allan Quatermain (1887) A Tale of Three Lions (1887) Mr Meeson's Will (1888) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Colonel Quaritch, VC (1888) Cleopatra (1889) Allan's Wife (1889) Beatrice (1889) 1890s The World's Desire (1890) Eric Brighteyes (1891) Nada the Lily (1892) Montezuma's Daughter (1893) The People of the Mist (1894) Joan Haste (1895) Heart of the World (1895) Church and State (1895) The Wizard (1896) Doctor Therne (1898) Swallow (1898) 1900s Lysbeth (1901) Pearl Maiden (1903) Brethren (1904) Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) The Way of the Spirit (1906) Benita (1906) Fair Margaret (1907) The Ghost Kings (1908) The Yellow God (1908) The Lady of Blossholme (1909) 1910s Queen Sheba's Ring (1910) Morning Star (1910) Red Eve (1911) The Mahatma and the Hare (1911) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Wanderer's Necklace (1913) Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) Love Eternal (1918) Moon of Isreal (1918) When the World Shook (1919) 1920s The Ancient Allan (1920) Smith and the Pharaohs (1920) She and Allan (1921) The Virgin of the Sun (1922) Wisdom's Daughter (1923) Heu-Heu (1924) Queen of the Dawn (1925) Treasure of the Lake (1926) Allan and the Ice Gods (1927) Mary of Marion Isle (1929) 1930s Belshazzar (1930) Genres Fantasy Romance Science-Fiction Historical Fable Gothic Adventure Non-fiction Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1872) A Farmer's Year (1899) The Last Boer War (1899) The New South Africa (1900) Rural England (1902) The Poor and the Land (1905) A Garderner's Year (1905) Report of Salvation Army Colonies (1905) Rural Denmark (1911) Regeneration (1910) The Days of My Life (Autobiography, 1926)

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Name	Haggard, Henry Rider
Alternative names	Haggard, Rider
Short description	English novelist, scholar
Date of birth	22 June 1856
Place of birth	Norfolk, England
Date of death	14 May 1925
Place of death	London, England

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• FYI for Strategic Effectiveness: Aligning People and Operational Practices to Strategy with Robert W. Eichinger and Kim E. Ruyle, published January 2007 (ISBN 1933578068).
• 50 More Things You Need to Know (Volume 2): The Science behind Best People Practices for Managers and HR Professionals with Robert W. Eichinger, John Kulas, and Ken De Meuse, published January 2007 (ISBN 1933578084).
• How Leaders Build Value: Using People, Organization and Other Intangibles to Get Bottom-Line Results with Norm Smallwood, published March 2006 (ISBN 047176079X).
• The HR Value Proposition with Wayne Brockbank, published June 2005 (ISBN 1591397073).
• Future of Human Resource Management: 64 Thought Leaders Explore the Critical HR Issues of Today and Tomorrow with Michael Losey and Sue Meisinger, published June 2005 (ISBN 0471677914).
• The Change Champion's Fieldguide: Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization with Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith, Jim Bolt, and Norm Smallwood, published June 2003 (ISBN 0974038806).
• Why the Bottom Line Isn't: How to Build Value Through People and Organization with Norm Smallwood, published April 2003 (ISBN 047144510X).
• Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change: How the Best Companies Ensure Meaningful Change and Sustainable Leadership with Louis Carter and Marshall Goldsmith, published December 2004 (ISBN 0787976253).
• Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing: Transforming How HR Gets Its Work Done with Edward E. Lawler, Jac Fitz-enz, James Madden, and Regina Maruca, published August 2004 (ISBN 0787971634).
• 100 Things You Need to Know: Best Practices for Managers and HR with Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger, published January 2004 (ISBN 0974589209).
• GE Workout with Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas, published March 2002 (ISBN 0071384162).
• HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance with Brian Becker and Mark Huselid, published January 2001 (ISBN 1578511364).
• Results Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line with Norm Smallwood and Jack Zenger, published December 2000 (ISBN 9781578513192).
• Organizational Learning Capability: Generating and Generalizing Ideas with Impact with Arthur K. Yeung, Stephen W. Nason, Mary A. Von Glinow, published January 1999 (ISBN 0195102045).
• Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals, January 1998 (ISBN 0875848699).
• Tomorrow's HR Management: 48 Thought Leaders Call for Change with Michael R. Losey and Gerry Lake, published September 1997 (ISBN 0471197149).
• Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results, published January 1997 (ISBN 0875847196).
• The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure with Ron Ashkenas, Steve Kerr, and Todd Jick, published September 1995 (ISBN 078790113X).
• Organizational Capability: Competing from the Inside Out with Dale Lake, published September 1990 (ISBN 0471618071).

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References[link]

• New Jersey Human Resource Planning Group
• Association of Knowledgework
• University of Michigan
• Personnel Today
• The Why of Work

External links[link]

• Daveulrich.com