Publisher's Synopsis
Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873-1943), was an American author, playwright and screen writer, who also wrote as Arnold Fredericks. In 1894, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he had earned a degree in civil engineering. In 1901, he was awarded the Collingwood prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was the chief engineer for the American Wood Preserving Company and later general manager of the Eastern Paving Block Company. In 1907, he turned to writing full time. His works include: Modern Wood Pavements (1901), The Green God (1911), The Ivory Snuff Box (1912), The Brute (1912), A Song of Sixpence (1913), A Lost Paradise (1914), The Blue Lights (1915), The Little Fortune (1915), The Second Coming: A Vision (1916), The Film of Fear (1917), The Painted Woman (1917), The Battle of the Nations, 1914-1918: A Young Folks' History of the Great War (1919), One Million Francs (1919), The Web (1919), Peggy-Elise (1919), The Pipes of Yesterday (1921), The First Days of Man (1922), Plaster Saints (1922) and The First Days of Knowledge (1923).
