Walter Archer Frost

For the footballer, see Walter 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 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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  3. ^ "Walter Archer Frost – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  4. ^ "Walter Archer Frost". BFI. Archived from the original on December 30, 2019.
  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. ^ "Second Report". 1907.
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ 'Writer Dies,' The Gettysburg Times (Pennsylvania), March 12, 1964, pg. 6