Arthur Stringer

Arthur Stringer (1874–1950) was a Canadian-American writer, born in Chatham, Ontario, and educated at the University of Toronto and Oxford, who worked as a journalist in Montreal and New York before turning to fiction. He farmed wheat in Alberta for several years, and that experience produced his best-known work, the trilogy The Prairie Wife (1915), The Prairie Mother and The Prairie Child, told in the diary of a sophisticated woman who marries a homesteader. He also wrote crime novels such as The Wire Tappers, more than forty books in all, and the screen story for the serial The Perils of Pauline. He married the actress Jobyna Howland.