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Charles Stokes Wayne
1858–1920
A journalist-turned-novelist from Philadelphia, he wrote popular fiction under his own name and the pen name Horace Hazeltine. Several of his stories later found new life on screen in the silent-film era.
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A Prince to Order
by Charles Stokes Wayne
About the author
Born in Philadelphia on March 18, 1858, Charles Stokes Wayne was an American writer and journalist. He worked in newspapers before turning to fiction, and he also published under the pseudonym Horace Hazeltine.
Wayne is remembered for novels including A Prince to Order and The Lady and Her Tree. Some of his work attracted enough attention to be adapted for early films, which suggests he was writing the kind of vivid, plot-driven stories that traveled well beyond the printed page.
Details about his life are fairly sparse in the sources that are easy to confirm, but his career shows a writer moving between journalism, popular literature, and the emerging entertainment world of the early 20th century.