Home › Authors › Hartley Howard Hartley Howard b. 1909 ยท 1 book Biography Hartley Howard was a pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall, a British crime novelist. Ognall was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist before starting his fiction career. He wrote over ninety novels before his death in 1979. Books by Hartley Howard The influence of the Roman far The influence of the Roman farmer's diction upon the literary language .. 1937