Sharon M. Harris

Charles Belmont Davis (1866-1926) crafted a unique area of fiction writing - behind-the-scenes studies of the American stage. 

   --short story writer

   --novelist

   --American Consul to Florence, Italy during President Cleveland's

          administration

   --publisher of dramas

   --manager of Weber & Fields' vaudeville house

   --screenwriter for Selznick Studios

   --theatrical critic for the New York Herald-Tribune

   --son of Rebecca Harding Davis