Charles Neville Buck | |
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Born | Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S. | April 15, 1879
Died | August 10, 1957 78) Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, US | (aged
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | University of Louisville |
Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 - August 10, 1957) was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era. [1] He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. [1] His father Charles William Buck served U.S. president Grover Cleveland's administration in Peru [2] and wrote Under the Sun about the Inca period. His maternal grandfather was dean of the University of Kentucky Medical School. [1]
Buck was born near Midway, Kentucky and grew up in Kentucky apart from four years living with his father in South America. [3] Buck graduated from the University of Louisville in 1898. [1]
Many of his works were serialized such as Battle Cry in Munsey's Magazine . The story was set in Kentucky's Cumberland Mountains. [4] Several of his novels include illustrations by various artists.
His work includes yarns about the mountain men of Kentucky and their traditions. [5]
He worked for a year as a cartoonist and then for about a decade as reporter in Kentucky. He moved to New York City after finding success as a writer. He married and acquired a vacation home in Orleans in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. [1]
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