H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor

Born in Chicago in 1865, H. C. Chatfield-Taylor was an American novelist, biographer, and man of letters. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886, and he became known not only for fiction but also for biographies and studies of European cultural figures, especially in French and Italian literature.

He wrote on subjects including Molière and Carlo Goldoni, and sources describe him as a noted authority on Molière. His career also extended beyond writing alone: he edited the literary journal America for a time and was active in Chicago's cultural world.

Chatfield-Taylor died in 1945. Today he is remembered as a versatile author whose work joined literary history, biography, and the cosmopolitan social world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.