Grant Martin Overton (September 19, 1887 – July 4, 1930) was an American writer and critic.

Grant Martin Overton was born on September 19, 1887, in Patchogue, New York,[1] to Ardelia Jarvis (Skidmore) and Floyd Alward Overton.[2] He attended Princeton University from 1904 to 1906.[2] He was a fiction editor at Collier's from 1924 to 1930.[3] Overton died on July 4, 1930, in Patchogue.[4]

Publications

  • Mermaid (1920)[5]
  • The Answerer (1921)[5]
  • World Without End (1921)[5]
  • Island of the Innocent (1923)[5]
  • The Thousand and First Night (1924)[5]

References

  1. ↑ American Authors and Books (3d ed.). Crown Publishing Group. 1972. ISBN 0-517-50139-2. OCLC 523487.
  2. 1 2 Kunitz, Stanley; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1956). Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. H. W. Wilson Company. pp. 1060–1061. OCLC 1151835015.
  3. ↑ Tuck, Donald H., ed. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Vol. 2. Advent. p. 338. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. OCLC 975349.
  4. ↑ "Grant Overton, Author, Dies at 42". The New York Times. July 5, 1930. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Smith, Geoffrey D. (1997). American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. p. 509. ISBN 0-521-43469-6. OCLC 37661469.


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