Arthur Benton Sanford

Arthur Benton Sanford was an American clergyman and religious writer associated with the Methodist world. Available records link him to editorial work on editions of The Methodist Year Book, and library and bookseller records credit him as the author of An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight, first published in 1922.

An Easter Disciple is the work he is most clearly remembered for. It presents the ministry and passion of Jesus from the perspective of a Roman officer, giving the book the feel of both devotional writing and historical fiction.

Some genealogical and memorial sources describe him as a well-known Christian leader connected with New York and Connecticut, and indicate that he was born in Redding, Connecticut, and died in 1933. Because the readily available sources are limited and not all biographical details are confirmed by strong primary references, a full life story is harder to reconstruct with confidence than his published work.