Walter Archer Frost

Walter Archer Frost (December 18, 1875 – March 10, 1964) was an American writer of plays and stories. He served in the U.S. Army.[1] He authored the story the film The Siren (1917 film) was based on. He also wrote the 1925 play Cape Smoke.[2][3] He also wrote the play the 1929 film Black Magic (1929 film) was based on.[4]

In 1909 he was published in Overland Monthly.[5] In 1912 he wrote for Harper's Bazar.[6]

Frost was born in Amenia, New York. He was part of the Harvard class of 1901.[7] He received an LLB from the University of Wisconsin in 1904.[8] He married SusanWinifred McCurdy.[9] He died in Martinsburg, West Virginia.[10]

School principal, lecturer, and writer Simeon Taylor Frost was his father. He had a twin brother.[11]

The plot of his book The Man Between includes a South African "witch doctor" who casts a curse that affects and American and some Englishmen.[12][13][14]

After a career change from law he became an associate editor of Munsey Company's oublication The Cavalier (periodical) in New York City and lived at the Judson Hotel.[15]

He was married in 1905. A marriage announcement states he was from Neenah, Wisconsin.[16]

He also worked at Good Housekeeping, People's Magazine, and Munsey's Magazine.[17]

He served as a captain in the Quartermaster Corps.[18]

Frost died at the Newton Baker Veterans Hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia on March 10, 1964.[19]

Bibliography

  • The Man Between (book) (1913), illustrated by Howard McCormick[20]
  • Strange Company (1937), a play in 3-acts[21]
  • Singapore, a play in 3-acts[22]
  • "Half a Man" (1950),published in the St. Nicholas Anthology[23]
  • No Questions Asked[24]
  • "The Admirable Crimes of Captain Clavering" (1926), a series of short stories published in Flynn's.[25]

References

  1. French, Alvah P.; Clark, Will Leach (December 30, 1925). "History of Westchester County, New York". Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Incorporated via Google Books.
  2. "Walter Archer Frost". Playbill.
  3. "Walter Archer Frost – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  4. "Walter Archer Frost". BFI.
  5. "The Overland Monthly". Samuel Carson. December 30, 1909 via Google Books.
  6. https://www.americanfashionmagazines.com/products/author/Elizabeth%20Jordan,%20Rev.%20J.%20H.%20Jowett,%20Jean%20M.%20Thompson,%20Clarence%20Urmy,%20Margarita%20Spalding%20Gerry,%20Inez%20Haynes%20Gillmore,%20Walter%20Archer%20Frost,%20Sylvia%20Sherman,%20Walter%20Prichard%20Eaton,%20Mary%20H.%20Northend,%20Martha%20Cutler,%20Helen%20Landon,%20Jane%20Calhoun,%20et%20al.
  7. [[https://books.google.com/books?id=--8nAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48&dq=walter+archer+frost&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8mrrtmN7mAhWhzVkKHf-rDAMQ6AEIOzAD
  8. University, Harvard (December 30, 1920). "Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates" via Google Books.
  9. Guthrie, Anna Lorraine; Tannehill, Bertha; Shimer, Neltje Marie Tannehill (December 30, 1922). "Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature". H. W. Wilson Company via Google Books.
  10. "Biographical Notes". www.philsp.com.
  11. of 1857, Yale University Class (December 30, 1907). "Record of the class of 1857 of Yale University during fifty years from graduation: also reports of the class meetings of 1882-1887-1892-1897-1902-1907". Case, Lckwood & Brainard via Google Books.
  12. "The Book News Monthly". J. Wanamaker. December 30, 1913 via Google Books.
  13. Mencken, Henry Louis (December 30, 1925). "The American Mercury". Knopf via Google Books.
  14. Bassett, John Spencer; Mims, Edwin; Glasson, William Henry; Few, William Preston; Boyd, William Kenneth; Wannamaker, William Hane (December 30, 1913). "The South Atlantic Quarterly". Duke University Press via Google Books.
  15. "Harvard Alumni Bulletin". Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated. December 30, 1912 via Google Books.
  16. Benoit, Shirley C. L. (December 30, 1986). "The Hants Journal's Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1898-1903". publisher not identified via Google Books.
  17. "The Authors Club". 1918.
  18. of 1901, Harvard University Class (December 30, 1920). "Secretary's ... Report". The University Press via Google Books.
  19. 'Writer Dies,' The Gettysburg Times (Pennsylvania), March 12, 1964, pg. 6
  20. "Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1". Library of Congress, Copyright Office. December 30, 1913 via Google Books.
  21. "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series". 1937 via books.google.com.
  22. "Dramas and Works Prepared for Oral Delivery". 1953 via books.google.com.
  23. Commager, Henry Steele (1950). "The St. Nicholas Anthology" via books.google.com.
  24. "The Publisher". 1927 via books.google.com.
  25. Sampson, Robert (1983). Yesterday's Faces. ISBN 9780879726157 via books.google.com.
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