W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

W. Grant Hague, usually identified as William Grant Hague, wrote as a physician and signed his best-known work as W. Grant Hague, M.D. On the title pages of The Eugenic Marriage, he describes himself as connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, and as a member of county and national medical organizations.

His main surviving work is The Eugenic Marriage: A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies, published in four volumes in the 1910s. The set combines practical discussion of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, infant care, and household health with the language of eugenics, reflecting ideas that were influential at the time but are now widely rejected.

Today, Hague is remembered less as a literary figure than as the author of a historical medical text that shows the assumptions of its age. For modern listeners and readers, his books can be most useful as documents of social and medical history rather than as reliable guidance.