author
Francis Hopkinson Smith
1838–1915
Remembered as a lively American man of letters, he moved easily between engineering, painting, and fiction. His life fed his work, from major public projects to popular novels and travel writing.
29 Audiobooks
Tom Grogan
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Felix O'Day
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Tides of Barnegat
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Little Gray Lady 1909
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Abijah's Bubble
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
A List To Starboard 1909
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Kennedy Square
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Forty Minutes Late 1909
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Under Dog
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
A Gentleman's Gentleman 1909
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Some Artists at the Fair
by Francis Davis Millet, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson, Will H. (Will Hicok) Low, John Ames Mitchell, Francis Hopkinson Smith
Homo 1909
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Colonel Carter of Cartersville
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Wood Fire in No. 3
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Other Fellow
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Fiddles 1909
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Enoch Crane
by Francis Hopkinson Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith
Gondola days
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Man In The High-Water Boots
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Caleb West, Master Diver
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
At Close Range
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Arm-Chair at the Inn
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
About the author
Born in Baltimore in 1838, Francis Hopkinson Smith built an unusually varied career as an engineer, artist, and author. He worked as a civil engineer and contractor, and is especially noted for helping construct the foundation for the Statue of Liberty. He was also a respected painter, known particularly for watercolors, and his broad interests gave his writing an easy, worldly charm.
Smith turned his experiences into a successful literary life, publishing novels, stories, and travel books that found a wide audience in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among his best-known books are Colonel Carter of Cartersville and Caleb West, Master Diver. His fiction often drew on American regional life and memorable, strongly sketched characters.
He died in New York in 1915, leaving behind a body of work that reflects a rare mix of practical skill and artistic energy. That combination helps explain why he still stands out as more than just a novelist: he was one of those writers whose whole life seemed to spill into the page.