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

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, to Ardelia Jarvis (Skidmore) and Floyd Alward Overton. He attended

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

from 1904 to 1906. He was a fiction editor at ''

Collier's ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Collie ...

'' from 1924 to 1930. Overton died on July 4, 1930, in Patchogue.

Publications

* ''Mermaid'' (1920) * ''The Answerer'' (1921) * ''World Without End'' (1921) * ''Island of the Innocent'' (1923) * ''The Thousand and First Night'' (1924)

References

1887 births 1930 deaths 20th-century American male writers American literary critics People from Patchogue, New York Princeton University alumni {{US-novelist-1880s-stub