George Bronson-Howard

Born in 1883, George Bronson-Howard was an American journalist, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He worked as a newspaper reporter before moving into fiction and the stage, bringing a reporter’s eye for pace and public taste to his writing.

He is especially remembered for writing popular plays and for his work in the growing film industry of the 1910s and early 1920s. His career stretched across several forms of storytelling at a moment when American entertainment was changing quickly, from print to theater to silent cinema.

Bronson-Howard died in 1922, still relatively young. Even so, his body of work reflects the lively, fast-moving world of early twentieth-century popular culture and the close ties between journalism, Broadway, and early Hollywood.