Archibald Clavering Gunter

Born in Liverpool in 1847, he later built his career in the United States as a novelist, dramatist, and publisher. His work was aimed at a broad popular audience, and in his own day he was widely read rather than niche or academic.

His best-known books include Mr. Barnes of New York, Mr. Potter of Texas, and My Official Wife, several of which were adapted for the stage or screen. He is also linked to A Florida Enchantment, the novel that later inspired the early film of the same name.

Beyond his own fiction, he has a small but lasting place in literary history for preserving and promoting Ernest Thayer’s baseball poem "Casey at the Bat." He died in New York City in 1907, leaving behind a body of lively, theatrical storytelling that captured the taste of his era.