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Arden Smith
writer
- Birth name:
- Arden Richard Smith
- Born:
- 1827, Sussex, England, UK
- Died:
- 1897-10-21, New York, New York, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Sussex, 1827: a damp winter wind carried the first cry of Arden Smith, a child who would trade England’s green hedgerows for Manhattan’s electric dusk. Pages became Smith’s passport; decades later, in 1915, those pages crystallized into The Eagle’s Nest, a novel that soared into cinemas when film was still young. Between those two coasts of life came marriage to Mary Berkley Hunter, a union that stitched Atlantic crossings with shared whispers and ink. The final chapter closed on 21 October 1897, in a New York townhouse where the city’s heartbeat drummed against the windowpanes, ending a journey that had begun seventy years earlier under English skies.
