The Beneficent Burglar

Charles Neville Buck

Charles Neville Buck was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era. He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father Charles William Buck served U.S. president Grover Cleveland's administration in Peru and wrote Under the Sun about the Inca period. His maternal grandfather was dean of the University of Kentucky Medical School.