Cosmo Hamilton

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Cosmo Hamilton (born 29 April 1870 in Norwood, England – died 14 October 1942 in Guildford, England), born Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs, was an English playwright and novelist. He took his mother's maiden name when he began to write. Hamilton was married twice: First to Beryl Faber, née Beryl Crossley Smith, the sister of C. Aubrey Smith who died in 1912, and then to Julia Bolton, the former wife of playwright Guy Bolton. He was the brother of writers A. Hamilton Gibbs and Sir Philip Gibbs.

His London musicals include The Catch of the Season (1904), The Belle of Mayfair (1906), The Beauty of Bath (1906). He then wrote a number of Broadway shows, and many of screenplays*.

'Many of screenplays'? Give me strength.

Hamilton wrote dozens of novels, averaging a novel per year most of his adult life. His novels include:

His Majesty, the King: A Romantic Love Chase of the Seventeenth Century (1926) ISBN 978-0548024188
Who cares? a story of adolescence (1919) ISBN 978-1406925258
The Rustle of Silk (1922)
Two kings and other romances (1917)
Plain brown (1909)
A plea for the younger generation (1913)
The door that has no key (1913)

During the First World War Hamilton was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service.

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Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1942.