Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (9 March 1888 – 24 May 1964) was an English-American novelist. He was the brother of
Cosmo Hamilton
Cosmo Hamilton (29 April 1870 – 14 October 1942), born Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs, was an English playwright and novelist. He was the brother of writers Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, Francis William Hamilton Gibbs, Helen Katherine Hamilton Gibbs an ...
and Sir
Philip Gibbs
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs KBE (1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Four of his siblings were also write ...
.
Born in London, Gibbs wrote 16 novels and two books of poetry. His novels include ''The Persistent Lovers'' (1915) (which was adapted into a 1922
film of the same name), ''
Soundings'' (1925) (
the best-selling book in the United States that year), and ''Chances'' (1930) adapted for film ''
Chances'' (1931).
Gibbs became a United States citizen in 1931, and thereafter lived primarily in
Lakeville, Massachusetts
Lakeville is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,523 at the 2020 census.
History
Native Americans inhabited southern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas ...
. He died in Boston in 1964, survived by his wife Jeanette (Philips), a writer and lawyer.
[(26 May 1964)]
Hamilton Gibbs, Author, 76, Dead
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Works (may be incomplete)
* ''Rowlandson's Oxford'' (1911)
* ''The Compleat Oxford Man'' (1911)
* ''Cheadle and Son'' (1912)
* ''The Hour of Conflict'' (1914)
* ''The Persistent Lovers'' (1915)
* ''Gun fodder; the diary of four years of war'' (1919)
* ''The Grey Wave'' (1920)
* ''Bluebottles'' (1920)
* ''
Soundings'' (1925)
* ''Labels'' (1926)
* ''Harness'' (1928)
* ''Chances'' (1930) (adapted for
1931 film)
* ''Undertow'' (1932)
* ''Rivers Glide On'' (1934)
* ''The Young Prince'' (1937, 60 pp.)
[Wallace, Margaret (2 January 1938)]
A Fable for Adults (Review of The Young Prince
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* ''A Half Inch of Candle'' (1939)
* ''Way of Life'' (1947)
[Paige, Judith (12 October 1947)]
Idealists All (book review of Way of Life
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* ''One Touch of France'' (1953) (free verse)
[Gilbert, Morris (22 March 1953)]
In Love With France (review of One Touche of France
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* ''Obedience to the Moon'' (1956)
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1888 births
1964 deaths
20th-century English male writers
20th-century English novelists
English emigrants to the United States
English male novelists
People from Lakeville, Massachusetts
Writers from London
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