W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

Trained as a doctor, W. Grant Hague was identified in his books as an M.D. connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York, and as a member of a county medical society and the American Medical Association. Library and catalog records list him as William Grant Hague, born in 1868.

He is best known for The Eugenic Marriage, issued in four volumes, and for The Eugenic Mother and Baby. These books blended practical advice on sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care with eugenic thinking that was widely promoted in some medical and social circles at the time.

Today, Hague's writing is most notable not as current medical guidance, but as evidence of how medicine, family life, and heredity were discussed in the early 1900s. His books can still interest listeners and readers who want to understand the history of health advice and the troubling influence of eugenics on everyday literature.