Arthur Hornblow

Arthur Hornblow (1865–1942) was an English-born American editor and novelist. After early years as a journalist in Paris, he settled in New York and from 1901 to 1926 edited Theatre Magazine, the leading American periodical on the stage. He made a second career turning successful Broadway plays into novels, including Charles Klein's The Lion and the Mouse, The Gamblers and Bought and Paid For, and wrote original fiction such as The Mask (1913) and By Right of Conquest. His two-volume History of the Theatre in America appeared in 1919. His son, Arthur Hornblow Jr., became a Hollywood producer.