Arthur Preston Hankins

Born in 1880, Arthur Preston Hankins was an American writer whose work ranged from novels to motion-picture stories and screenwriting. Reliable catalog and film sources confirm that he published many books and was also credited on silent-era productions including The Avenging Arrow, Fighting Fate, and The Boss of Camp Four.

His fiction is closely associated with Western and adventure storytelling. Surviving bibliographic records link his name to novels such as The Jubilee Girl, The She Boss, The Heritage of the Hills, Falcon, of Squawtooth, The Valley of Arcana, and Cole of Spyglass Mountain, showing a career that was both prolific and wide-ranging.

A local historical source records that he and his wife, Emily Washburn Hankins, lived in San Anselmo, California, after buying a home there in 1923, and that he died in San Jose in January 1932. Some books were also published under the pseudonym Emart Kinsburn, a pen name formed from an anagram of his own name.