Arthur Hamilton Gibbs was an English-born novelist and poet who later became a naturalized United States citizen. Born in London in 1888, he belonged to a highly literary family, counting the prominent writers Cosmo Hamilton and Sir Philip Gibbs as his brothers. Over the course of his career, Gibbs authored sixteen novels and two collections of poetry, establishing a reputation for popular fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.
Gibbs achieved his greatest commercial success during the mid-1920s and early 1930s. His 1925 novel, Soundings, resonated deeply with the reading public and became the number-one bestselling book in the United States for that year. His storytelling also caught the attention of the film industry; his 1915 novel The Persistent Lovers was adapted into a silent film in 1922, and his 1930 novel Chances was adapted into a major motion picture in 1931.
In 1931, the same year Chances hit theaters, Gibbs officially became a United States citizen. He settled primarily in Lakeville, Massachusetts, where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life. He was married to Jeanette Philips, a writer and lawyer who survived him upon his death in Boston in 1964.
