Author:Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

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Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
(1874–1950)
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Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States: popular in his day for his crime fiction and his wilderness adventures, but he wrote in many genres, from social realism to psychological fiction, and even early science fiction novels. Pen name: Arthur Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer


Works

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • A Study of King Lear, 1897.
  • Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke, 1921. IA

Collections and poetry

  • Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems, 1894. IA
  • Pauline and Other Poems, 1895. IA
  • Epigrams (1896) IA
  • The Loom of Destiny, 1899. illus. Florence Scovel Shinn (Short stories prefaced with verses.)
Premonitions — The Undoing of Dinney Crockett — The Fly in the Ointment — The Iron Age — The King who Lost His Crown — Life's Loaded Die — The Crucible of Character — The Essentials of Aristocracy — The Honour of the House of Hummerley — Thicker than Water — Instruments of Eros — An Essay in Equality — The Heart's Desire — Not in Utter Nakedness

Works from periodicals

Longer works and series
  • "Phantom Wires" (1906 Mar, The Smart Set) (novel; in book form, 1907]
  • "Creeping Rails" (1907 Mar, The Smart Set) (novella)
  • "The Breaker," 3-part serial in the The Saturday Evening Post, 1916 Jan 15—29
  • "The Anatomy of Love" (1916 Aug, Smith's) (novel)
  • The Sleep-Walker [The Man Who Could Not Sleep] (series; 1918 April to 1919 March, Maclean's Magazine Magazine)
    • "The Strange Case of the Lion Who Could Not Roar" Apr 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Ox-Blood Vase" May 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Stolen Wheel-Code" June 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Open Door" July 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Man From Medicine Hat" Aug 1918
    • "The Strange of the Irreproachable Butler" Sept 1918
    • "The Strange of the Panama Gold Chests" Oct 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Staring Canvas" Nov 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Dummy Chucker" Dec 1918
    • "The Strange Adventure of a Rialto Rain-Storm" Jan 1919
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Thumb-Tap Clue" Feb 1919
    • "The Strange Adventure of the Nile-Green Roadster" Mar 1919
Non-fiction
  • "The Canada Fakers" in Canada West, Oct 1908
  • "A Recipe for Certain Society Fiction" in The Bookman Jan 1904
  • The Life of Mary Pickford (1918, Maclean's Magazine) (4-part article series)
    • "Our Mary" (1918 Sept)
    • "Part II" (1918 Oct)
    • "The Power of Mary Pickford" (1918 Nov)
    • "Part IV" (1918 Dec)
Poems
  • "Stories in Verse" in Harper's Monthly Mar 1899
  • "Easter in the City" in The Smart Set Jun 1900
  • "Undersongs" in The Smart Set Jul 1903
  • "Night Travel" in The Smart Set Sept 1903
  • "The Outbound Ships" in The Smart Set Feb 1904
  • "The Snowflake" (1905 Apr, The Smart Set)
  • "At the Wharf End" (1905 Dec, The Smart Set)
  • "At the End of Wooing" (1905 Dec, Ainslee's Magazine)
  • "My Friend, the Enemy" (1906, Appleton's Magazine)
  • "The Final Lesson" (1907 Jan, The Smart Set)
  • "Songs in Exile" (1907 Dec, The Smart Set)
  • "The Randyvoo" (1909 Nov, The Smart Set)
  • "A Poet and a Woman" (1910 Nov, The Smart Set)

Plays

About Stringer

  • "Arthur Stringer and His Views on Literature and Life" (1909, The Canadian Bookman)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1950, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 74 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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