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Frederic Arnold Kummer
1873–1943
A onetime engineer and editor who reinvented himself as a prolific storyteller, he wrote popular fiction, plays, and screenplays in the early 20th century. Several of his works made the jump to film, and his long, varied career stretched from magazines and the stage to Hollywood-era adaptation.
10 Audiobooks
The Blue Lights: A Detective Story
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Film of Fear
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Brute
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Ivory Snuff Box
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Satellite of Fear
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Green God
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Pied Piper of Mars
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Star Pirate
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Sargasso of the Stars
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
The First Days of Man, as Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers
by Frederic Arnold Kummer
About the author
Born in Catonsville, Maryland, on August 5, 1873, Frederic Arnold Kummer was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. He studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer, an editor at the Railroad Gazette, and a business executive before turning fully to writing after the Panic of 1907 changed his path.
Kummer wrote fiction for a wide popular audience and also produced plays and screen stories, sometimes using the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks. His work reached readers, theatergoers, and movie audiences alike, and several of his stories were adapted for film. He was also connected to a literary family: his first wife was playwright Clare Kummer, and his son Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr. became an author as well.
He died in Baltimore on November 22, 1943, at age 70. Today he is remembered as one of those versatile early 20th-century writers who moved easily between print, stage, and screen.