A. Hamilton Gibbs
{{Short description|English-American novelist (1888–1964)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = A Hamilton Gibbs.png
| caption = Portrait from The Sun, 1919
| birth_date = 9 March 1888
| birth_place = London, England, UK
| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|05|24|1888|03|09|df=y}}
| death_place = Boston. U.S.
| occupation = Novelist
}}
Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (9 March 1888 – 24 May 1964) was an English-American novelist. He was the brother of Cosmo Hamilton and Sir Philip Gibbs.{{cite news |last= |date=26 Oct 1919 |title=Major A. Hamilton Gibbs and his Book |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-10-26/ed-1/seq-68/ |newspaper=The Sun |location=New York City |access-date=November 3, 2014}}
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. He died in Boston in 1964, survived by his wife Jeanette (Philips), a writer and lawyer.(26 May 1964). [https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/26/hamilton-gibbs-author-76-dead.html?_r=0 Hamilton Gibbs, Author, 76, Dead], The New York Times
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). [https://www.nytimes.com/1938/01/02/archives/a-fable-for-adults-the-young-prince-by-a-hamilton-gibbs-60-pp.html A Fable for Adults (Review of The Young Prince], The New York Times
- A Half Inch of Candle (1939)
- Way of Life (1947)Paige, Judith (12 October 1947). [https://www.nytimes.com/1947/10/12/archives/idealists-all-way-of-life-by-a-hamilton-gibbs-346-pp-boston-little.html Idealists All (book review of Way of Life], The New York Times
- One Touch of France (1953) (free verse)Gilbert, Morris (22 March 1953). [https://www.nytimes.com/1953/03/22/archives/in-love-with-france-one-touch-of-france-by-a-hamilton-gibbs.html In Love With France (review of One Touche of France], The New York Times
- Obedience to the Moon (1956)
References
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External links
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- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Arthur Hamilton Gibbs}}
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Category:20th-century English male writers
Category:20th-century English novelists
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:English male novelists
Category:People from Lakeville, Massachusetts
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