Percival Wilde
Percival Wilde was an American author and playwright who wrote novels and numerous short stories and one-act plays. He also authored a textbook on the theater arts. Native to New York City, Wilde graduated from Columbia University in 1906, and worked for a time as a banker. He began writing plays in 1912, and joined The Lambs Club in 1947.
Wilde's plays were especially popular in the Little Theatre Movement.
List of works
Novels
- The Devil's Booth
- Mystery Week-End
- Inquest
- ''Design for Murder''
Collections of short stories
Rogues in Clover- ''P. Moran, Operative''
Plays
Dawn and One Act Plays Of Life Today- *Dawn
- *The Hour of Truth
- *The Noble Lord
- *The Traitor
- *A House of Cards
- *Playing With Fire
- *The Finger of God
- Confessional, and Other American Plays
- * Confessional
- * The Beautiful Story
- * The Villain in the Piece
- * A Question of Morality
- * According to Darwin The Unseen Host, and Other War Plays The Reckoning
- ''Eight Comedies For Little Theaters''
Films (Story)
Moonlight Follies The Guttersnipe- ''The Rise of Duton Lang''
Nonfiction
- ''The Craftmanship of One-Act Plays''