Thompson Buchanan

Thompson Buchanan (1877–1937) was an American journalist, playwright and screenwriter. After working as a reporter for newspapers in Louisville and New York, he wrote a series of successful plays in the early twentieth century, among them A Woman's Way and The Cub, as well as novels and magazine fiction such as Making People Happy. In the 1920s and 1930s he moved to Hollywood, where he worked on screenplays for silent and sound films. His light comedies dealt with marriage, society and the newspaper world.