F. Clifford (Frank Clifford) Smith

Frank Clifford Smith, who published as F. Clifford Smith, was born in 1865 and died in 1937. Public-domain and library records confirm him as the author of A Lover in Homespun and A Daughter of Patricians, and Project Gutenberg lists him under the fuller form Smith, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford).

The books associated with him point to a writer interested in French Canadian life and character. A Daughter of Patricians opens in a strongly Quebec setting, and A Lover in Homespun helped preserve his work for later readers through Project Gutenberg and other public-domain libraries.

Very little firmly sourced biographical detail appears to be readily available online beyond his name, dates, and publications. Because of that, he remains one of those early authors best known through the mood and setting of his fiction rather than through a well-documented personal history.