John Coulson Kernahan (1858–1943) was an English novelist, journalist, and critic. He was born on 1 August 1858 in Ilfracombe, Devon, and educated privately by his father and at St Albans School. His father intended him for the church, but Kernahan pursued literature instead, first publishing in British and American periodicals before turning to novels. His breakthrough was A Dead Man's Diary (1890), which drew critical acclaim and established him as a serious author; his bestselling work, God and the Ant, reportedly sold more than a million copies. He produced roughly a dozen works of fiction alongside his journalism and criticism, and was a vocal public advocate of compulsory military service. He was married to the novelist Jeanie Gwynne Bettany, and his personal acquaintance with contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde and Ouida colours much of his memoir-writing. He died on 17 February 1943.
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