Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

Born in Patchogue, New York, in 1887, Grant Martin Overton was an American writer and critic whose career ranged across fiction, literary commentary, and editing. He studied at Princeton for a time and became known for writing about contemporary literature in a clear, accessible way.

Overton wrote books including The Women Who Make Our Novels, American Nights Entertainment, Why Authors Go Wrong, and the novel The Answerer. He also worked as a fiction editor at Collier's, a role that placed him close to the magazine world and the reading public of the 1920s.

He died in 1930, still relatively young, but his work preserves a vivid picture of American literary life in the years after World War I. He remains of interest both as a novelist and as a sharp observer of the writers and publishing culture of his time.