Frederick Orin Bartlett

Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1876, Frederick Orin Bartlett was an American author whose career stretched across novels, magazine fiction, journalism, and screenwriting. Sources indicate that he studied at Proctor Academy and Harvard, worked in newspaper jobs at the Boston Record and Boston Herald, and later earned a Harvard degree in 1926.

Bartlett wrote widely for popular magazines, including The Atlantic and The Saturday Evening Post, and published a long list of books. He also wrote under the pseudonym William Carleton for at least one work, One Way Out: A Middle-Class New-Englander Emigrates to America. His fiction ranged from romance and social drama to adventure; among the titles still noted today is The Web of the Golden Spider (1909), remembered as an adventure novel with lost-world elements.

His storytelling also reached the screen. Film records connect him with silent-era productions including The Lady in the Library (1917), The Spender (1919), Alias Mike Moran (1919), and The Lion's Den (1919). Bartlett died on November 4, 1945. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.