Charles Neville Buck

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Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 – August 10, 1957) was an American novelist from Kentucky. Many of his novels were turned into plays and silent films. He was born near Midway in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father, Charles William Buck, worked in Grover Cleveland’s administration in Peru and wrote about the Inca era. His grandfather was the dean of the University of Kentucky Medical School. Buck grew up mostly in Kentucky, except for four years living with his father in South America. He graduated from the University of Louisville in 1898. Buck published many serialized stories, including Battle Cry in Munsey’s Magazine; this tale is set in Kentucky’s Cumberland Mountains. His books often describe the mountain men of Kentucky and their traditions, and some include illustrations. He spent a year as a cartoonist and about ten years as a reporter in Kentucky before moving to New York City after finding success. He married and had a vacation home in Orleans, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Buck also wrote under the pen name Hugh Lundsford. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1957.