Grant Carpenter | |
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Born | Louis Grant Carpenter February 21, 1865 |
Died | April 30, 1936 Hollywood |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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Grant Carpenter (1865–1936) was a newspaperman, attorney, and writer, and twin brother of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson.[1][2][3]
As a youth, Carpenter worked as an apprentice to a printer, and later as a newspaper reporter for the San Francisco Examiner.[1][2] He studied law at the University of Michigan,[4] and after earning his law degree, became an attorney for the Chinese Six Companies in San Francisco, and later served as an Assistant District Attorney.[1][2] He became involved in San Francisco's performing arts circles, writing continued to be an interest, and he served as president of several associations, including the San Francisco Press Club.[3]
In 1916, he moved to Manhattan, New York City, to begin a new career as a writer.[3] In the 1920s, he moved to Los Angeles, California and pursued writing for Hollywood.[3] He was the author of two plays, The Dragon's Claws and The Concubine,[2] several film scenarios,[2] and two novels, Long Sweetening: A Romance of the Red Woods (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1921, 306 pp.) and The Night Tide, A Story of Old Chinatown (The H. K. Fly Company, New York, 1920, 319 pp.).[1][5][6][7][8] He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild and vice-president of the Authors League of America, now the Authors Guild.[1][2]