Walter Archer Frost Explained

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 an American and some Englishmen.[12] [13] [14]

After a career change from law he became an associate editor of Munsey Company's publication 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: History of Westchester County, New York. Alvah P.. French. Will Leach. Clark. December 30, 1925. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Incorporated. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Walter Archer Frost. Playbill.
  3. Web site: Walter Archer Frost – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. www.ibdb.com.
  4. Web site: Walter Archer Frost. https://web.archive.org/web/20191230200932/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9693f3d. dead. December 30, 2019. BFI.
  5. Web site: The Overland Monthly. December 30, 1909. Samuel Carson. 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. Web site: Second Report. 1907.
  8. Web site: Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates. Harvard. University. December 30, 1920. Google Books.
  9. Web site: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Anna Lorraine. Guthrie. Bertha. Tannehill. Neltje Marie Tannehill. Shimer. December 30, 1922. H. W. Wilson Company. Google Books.
  10. Web site: Biographical Notes. www.philsp.com.
  11. Web site: 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. Yale University Class. of 1857. December 30, 1907. Case, Lckwood & Brainard. Google Books.
  12. Web site: The Book News Monthly. December 30, 1913. J. Wanamaker. Google Books.
  13. Web site: The American Mercury. Henry Louis. Mencken. December 30, 1925. Knopf. Google Books.
  14. Web site: The South Atlantic Quarterly. John Spencer. Bassett. Edwin. Mims. William Henry. Glasson. William Preston. Few. William Kenneth. Boyd. William Hane. Wannamaker. December 30, 1913. Duke University Press. Google Books.
  15. Web site: Harvard Alumni Bulletin. December 30, 1912. Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated. Google Books.
  16. Web site: The Hants Journal's Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1898-1903. Shirley C. L.. Benoit. December 30, 1986. publisher not identified. Google Books.
  17. Web site: The Authors Club. 1918.
  18. Web site: Secretary's ... Report. Harvard University Class. of 1901. December 30, 1920. The University Press. Google Books.
  19. 'Writer Dies,' The Gettysburg Times (Pennsylvania), March 12, 1964, pg. 6
  20. Web site: Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1. December 30, 1913. Library of Congress, Copyright Office.. Google Books.
  21. Web site: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series]. 1937. books.google.com.
  22. Web site: Dramas and Works Prepared for Oral Delivery. 1953. books.google.com.
  23. Web site: The St. Nicholas Anthology. books.google.com. Commager. Henry Steele. 1950.
  24. Web site: The Publisher. 1927. books.google.com.
  25. Book: Yesterday's Faces. 9780879726157. books.google.com. Sampson. Robert. 1983.