Cargoes for Crusoes

Grant Martin Overton (1887-1930) was an American writer and critic. Born in New York, he was a graduate of Princeton University and fiction editor at Collier’s magazine from 1924 to 1930, and a novelist in his own right. His “Cargoes for Crusoes,” published in 1924, is a book about books and authors of the time, featuring works produced by three American publishing houses. Individual chapters are devoted to the work of such outstanding authors as: Philip Gibbs, Melville Davisson Post, Jeffery Farnol, Aldous Huxley, Edith Wharton, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mary Johnston, Michael Arlen, Frank L. Packard and others.