Henry Halsey Noyes

Henry Halsey Noyes was an writer, publisher, teacher, and distributor of books and magazines.

Born in Guangzhou, China, he was the son of Presbyterian missionaries William D. Noyes and Mary Stevenson. His mother was cousin to American stateman Adlai Stevenson.

The family relocated to Canada in 1919. Henry earned an in English literature at the University of Toronto and a at the University of London in the same subject in 1938).

In 1960, he founded China Books and Periodicals, Inc., in Chicago. The business later relocated to San Francisco and became America's largest distributor of printed materials from the People's Republic of China.

He was the author of several books, including:

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