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Frederic Arnold Kummer
1873–1943
A prolific American storyteller, he moved easily from popular fiction to the stage and early screenwriting. His career stretched across novels, plays, and film work, making him one of those versatile writers who turned up almost everywhere readers and audiences were looking in the early 20th century.
6 Audiobooks
The First Days of Man, as Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Film of Fear
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Blue Lights: A Detective Story
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Brute
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Green God
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Ivory Snuff Box
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
About the author
Frederic Arnold Kummer Sr. was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter born in Maryland in 1873 and died in 1943. Reliable reference sources identify him as a writer who also used the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks, and note that several of his works were adapted for film.
He is remembered as a notably adaptable professional writer: beyond books, he wrote for the theater and worked in the early movie industry, a mix that helps explain the wide range of titles associated with his name. His surviving reputation today comes largely from that breadth—popular fiction, dramatic writing, and screen stories all being part of the same long career.
For audiobook listeners, that background suggests a writer with a strong sense of pace and audience. Even when little biographical detail is easily confirmed, the outline is clear: he was a busy, multi-format storyteller whose work belonged to the energetic world of American popular entertainment in the first half of the 20th century.