William Addison Lathrop (1864 – January 3, 1925) was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter for

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

s. Lathrop was born in

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, in 1864 and graduated in 1885 from

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

in Clinton, New York. He taught at

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until 1891, and then was admitted to the bar. In addition to writing scenarios for silent films in the 1910s, his first novel ''Love Time in Picardy'' was published in 1919. Many of his plays were co-written with his wife, Mabel. He died of a heart attack in New York City on January 3, 1925.(4 January 1925)
William Lathrop, Playwright, Dies
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Brooklyn Eagle :''This article covers both the historical newspaper (1841–1955, 1960–1963), as well as an unrelated new Brooklyn Daily Eagle starting 1996 published currently'' The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''King ...

''(November 1919)
Alumni Notes
''Hamilton Literary Magazine'' (identifies Lathrop as Class of 1885)In Memoriam
''The Phi Beta Kappa Key'' (March 1926), p. 167

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Little Stories from the Screen
(Britton 1917) (scenarios submitted by Lathrop to studios as basis for silent films)
Love Time in Picardy
(1919)
The Man That Never Grew Up
(1919) (with Mabel C. Lathrop) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lathrop, William Addison 1864 births 1925 deaths 20th-century American novelists Novelists from Ohio People from Cincinnati Hamilton College (New York) alumni