A. Hamilton Gibbs

Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (9 March 1888 – 24 May 1964) was an English-American novelist. He was the brother of Cosmo Hamilton and Sir Philip Gibbs.^[1]

A. Hamilton Gibbs
Portrait from The Sun, 1919
Born	9 March 1888 London, England, UK
Died	24 May 1964(1964-05-24) (aged 76) Boston. U.S.
Occupation	Novelist

Born in London, Gibbs wrote 16 novels and two books of poetry. His novels include The Persistent Lovers (1915) (which was adapted into a 1922 film of the same name), Soundings (1925) (the best-selling book in the United States that year), and Chances (1930) adapted for film Chances (1931).

Gibbs became a United States citizen in 1931, and thereafter lived primarily in Lakeville, Massachusetts. He died in Boston in 1964, survived by his wife Jeanette (Philips), a writer and lawyer.^[2]

Works (may be incomplete)

• Rowlandson's Oxford (1911)
• The Compleat Oxford Man (1911)
• Cheadle and Son (1912)
• The Hour of Conflict (1914)
• The Persistent Lovers (1915)
• Gun fodder; the diary of four years of war (1919)
• The Grey Wave (1920)
• Bluebottles (1920)
• Soundings (1925)
• Labels (1926)
• Harness (1928)
• Chances (1930) (adapted for 1931 film)
• Undertow (1932)
• Rivers Glide On (1934)
• The Young Prince (1937, 60 pp.)^[3]
• A Half Inch of Candle (1939)
• Way of Life (1947)^[4]
• One Touch of France (1953) (free verse)^[5]
• Obedience to the Moon (1956)