Walter Archer Frost
American writer
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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]
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]