author
Charles Sherman
b. 1882
Best remembered for brisk, light fiction that made its way to both the stage and silent film, this early-20th-century novelist wrote stories with a comic touch and an eye for social pretensions.
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He Comes Up Smiling
by Charles Sherman
About the author
Charles Sherman was an American novelist active in the 1910s. The clearest details I could confirm are tied to his books: He Comes Up Smiling was published in 1912, The Upper Crust in 1913, and Only Relatives Invited: A Social and Socialistic Satire in 1916.
His work reached beyond print. He Comes Up Smiling was adapted into a 1914 play, and later into the 1918 silent film of the same name starring Douglas Fairbanks, which suggests that his storytelling had a lively, audience-friendly appeal.
Reliable biographical information about his personal life is scarce in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember him mainly through the novels themselves and their early success in popular entertainment.