Overton, Mark

Mark Overton is an author byline used in early twentieth-century American cheap juvenile sports fiction; reliable information about his true identity and life is limited, and no authoritative sources can confirm them. In 1919, M. A. Donohue & Company published the Jack Winters series under the Overton name, of which three titles are held here, centering on baseball, football, and camp life—for example, the baseball story concerns rivals on the diamond. Aimed at young readers, such books move briskly and stress teamwork and sporting spirit, making them typical products of the era's sports genre for juveniles. Other profiles of people with the same name circulating online are largely misattributions and should not be trusted.