Author, novelist, dramatist, and editor. Charles was born April 23, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended U.C. Berkeley in 1903 and married writer Kathleen Thompson in 1909. He was assistant editor of Country Life in America, circulation manager of Sunset magazine, and art editor of American magazine (1908-1913). His published works include The Amateur (1916), Salt: or, The education of Griffith Adams (1918), Brass: A Novel of Marriage (1921), Bread (1923), Pig Iron (1925), Zelda Marsh (1927), Seed, A Novel of Birth Control (1930), Zest (1933), Hands (1935), Bricks Without Straw (1938), and Flint (1944). He died on July 25, 1945 in Palo Alto, California. His collections are stored in the Special Collections Departments of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University.
Author, novelist, dramatist, and editor. Charles was born April 23, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended U.C. Berkeley in 1903 and married writer Kathleen Thompson in 1909. He was assistant editor of Country Life in America, circulation manager of Sunset magazine, and art editor of American magazine (1908-1913). His published works include The Amateur (1916), Salt: or, The education of Griffith Adams (1918), Brass: A Novel of Marriage (1921), Bread (1923), Pig Iron (1925), Zelda Marsh (1927), Seed, A Novel of Birth Control (1930), Zest (1933), Hands (1935), Bricks Without Straw (1938), and Flint (1944). He died on July 25, 1945 in Palo Alto, California. His collections are stored in the Special Collections Departments of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University.
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