William Dunseath Eaton

William Dunseath Eaton was an American journalist, editor, playwright, and author. Contemporary book material describes him as the founder and first editor of the Chicago Herald, and his surviving bibliography shows a writer comfortable moving between journalism, drama, biography, poetry, and large-scale historical compilation.

His books include Spirit Life; or, Do We Die? (1920), a personal and reflective work on grief, spiritualism, and the afterlife; Woodrow Wilson: His Life and Work; and war-related volumes such as America's War for Humanity and A Complete History of the World War. Project Gutenberg also lists his Great Poems of the World War, which helped keep his name in circulation with later readers.

What makes Eaton interesting is that he seems to have written with both a reporter's reach and a dramatist's instinct. Even when covering sweeping public events, he gravitated toward strong emotion, moral questions, and the human side of history.