Gouverneur Morris

Born in New York City on February 7, 1876, Gouverneur Morris was an American novelist and short-story writer who became known for popular fiction in the early 1900s. He was a great-grandson of the Founding Father Gouverneur Morris and studied at Yale, where he wrote for The Yale Record.

Morris built a career in magazines and books, publishing brisk, entertaining stories for a wide readership. His work appeared in magazines such as Adventure, and a number of his stories were adapted for film, including The Penalty, which helped keep his name in front of movie audiences as well as readers.

He died on August 14, 1953. Today, he is remembered as a lively writer of pulp-era fiction whose career bridges magazine storytelling, novels, and the early days of literary adaptation in cinema.