Charles Neville Buck Explained
| Charles Neville Buck |
| Birth Date: | 15 April 1879 |
| Birth Place: | Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, US |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Alma Mater: | University of Louisville |
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Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 - August 10, 1957) was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era.[1] He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky.[1] His father Charles William Buck served U.S. president Grover Cleveland's administration in Peru[2] and wrote Under the Sun about the Inca period. His maternal grandfather was dean of the University of Kentucky Medical School.[1]
Buck was born near Midway, Kentucky and grew up in Kentucky apart from four years living with his father in South America.[3] Buck graduated from the University of Louisville in 1898.[1]
Many of his works were serialized such as Battle Cry in Munsey's Magazine. The story was set in Kentucky's Cumberland Mountains.[4] Several of his novels include illustrations by various artists.
His work includes yarns about the mountain men of Kentucky and their traditions.[5]
He worked for a year as a cartoonist and then for about a decade as reporter in Kentucky. He moved to New York City after finding success as a writer. He married and acquired a vacation home in Orleans in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.[1]
Buck also published under the pseudonym Hugh Lundsford.[6]
Bibliography
- The Lighted Match (1910)
- The Key to Yesterday[7] (1910)
- Portal of Dreams (1912)
- Call of the Cumberlands (1913)
- The Battle Cry (1914)
- The Code of the Mountains (1915)
- Destiny (1916)[8]
- The Tyranny of Weakness (1917)
- When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry (1918)
- A Pagan of the Hills (1919)
- The Law of Hemlock Mountain (c. 1920)
- The Tempering (1920)
- The Roof Tree[9] (1921)
- The Tyranny of Eben Tollman (1923)
- A Gentleman in Pajamas (1924)
- Rogue's Badge (1924)
- Portuguese Silver (1925)[10]
- The Flight to the Hills (1926)
- Iron Will (1927)
- Hazard of the Hills (1932)[11]
- The Strength of Samson
Filmography
- The Key to Yesterday (1914)
- A Woman's Power (1916) based on his novel The Code of the Mountains
- Her Man (1918 film) based on his novel The Battle Cry
- The Call of the Cumberlands (1916)
- Destiny (1919)[12]
- When Bearcat Went Dry (1919), based on his novel When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry
- Love, Honor and Obey (1920) based on his novel The Tyranny of Weakness
- The Mountain Woman (1921) based on his novel A Pagan of the Hills
- The Runaway (1926) based on his novel The Flight to the Hills
Notes and References
- Web site: Library of Southern Literature. Edwin Anderson. Alderman. Joel Chandler. Harris. Charles William. Kent. September 29, 1923. Martin & Hoyt Company. Google Books.
- Web site: Charles William Buck - People - Department History - Office of the Historian. history.state.gov.
- Web site: Kentucky Literature, 1784-1963. Ish. Richey. October 13, 1963. Monroe County Press. Google Books.
- Web site: Epoch. September 29, 1914. Epoch publishing Company.. Google Books.
- Web site: The Bookman: A Literary Journal. October 13, 1921. Dodd, Mead and Company. Google Books.
- Book: Buck, Charles Neville. The law of Hemlock Mountain. October 13, 1920. W. J. Watt & Company. Hathi Trust.
- Book: Smith, Geoffrey D.. American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. August 13, 1997. Cambridge University Press. Google Books. 9780521434690.
- Destiny /. Charles Neville. Buck. October 13, 1916. New York. 2027/wu.89090380205.
- Web site: Munsey's Magazine for .... September 29, 1921. Frank A. Munsey & Company. Google Books.
- Web site: Portuguese Silver. Charles Neville. Buck. October 13, 1925. New York & London. Google Books.
- Web site: Hazard of the Hills. Charles Neville. Buck. October 13, 1932. Macaulay Company. Google Books.
- Web site: Destiny. June 1919. www.imdb.com.
