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Charles Nevers Holmes
An American writer with a curious, lively range, he moved between popular science, poetry, and short comic plays. His work turns up in magazines, on stage, and in public-domain collections, giving modern readers a glimpse of an energetic early-20th-century literary life.
1 Audiobook
Please pass the cream: A comedy
by Charles Nevers Holmes
About the author
Charles Nevers Holmes was an American writer born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 and died in 1930. Public-domain and library records connect him with a varied body of work that included magazine articles on popular science as well as poetry and comedies.
Holmes seems to have written for general readers rather than a narrow specialist audience. LibriVox describes him as a writer of popular-science magazine articles who also wrote poetry and comedies, and his byline appears in places such as Scientific American. Surviving works linked to him include plays like Please Pass the Cream, The Star Boarder, and Their First Quarrel.
That mix of science writing and light theater makes him an appealing rediscovery for audiobook listeners: he belongs to the world of early modern magazines and amateur performance, where ideas, humor, and everyday life often met on the page. A confirmed portrait was not readily available from the sources checked.