Background
He was born in Jackson, Michigan, in 1870 and became a journalist and author while living in Chicago, Illinois.
He was born in Jackson, Michigan, in 1870 and became a journalist and author while living in Chicago, Illinois.
He wrote for the Chicago Record Herald during the Spanish–American War and the First World War, moving into dramatic and literary criticism as a writer for the Chicago Tribune. Bennett died in his home in Chicago in 1940.