Ollivant (1874-1927) was an English novelist best known for his first novel Owd Bob (1898), which is set in rural Cumbria in northern England and concerns a suspected sheepkilling collie dog, Bob. Even though most of the book's dialogue is written in Cumbrian dialect it became popular in the US and Ollivant published a sequel, Danny, in 1902. This sequel to Two Men: A Romance of Sussex (1919) , was published in 1921 with the subtitle Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex. In addition to his novels, Ollivant also contributed short stories to The Atlantic Monthly and The Boston Evening Transcript.