Wilson edited Puck magazine from 1894 to 1904. In 1905, he married Rose O'Neill a talented ilustrator and the creator of the kewpie doll. They were divorced in 1908. He was a great friend of Jack London and together with George Sterling and Mary Hunter Austin, they helped to found the colony of artists at Carmel, California. In 1907, he collaborated with Booth Tarkington in writing The Man From Home, a very successful Broadway play of the time. He is best remembered for his witty novel Ruggles of Red Gap (1915), which was subsequently made into a film and was the basis for Bob Hope's Fancy Pants film of the 1950's. Another of his works, Merton of the Movies (1922), which was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, was also filmed in the 1920's. Wilson's work included The Spenders (1902), The Lions of the Lord (1903), The Seeker (1904), The Boss of Little Arcady (1905), Ewing's Lady (1907), Bunker Bean (1913), Somewhere in Red Gap (1916), Ma Pettengill (1919), Wrong Twin (1921), Oh, Doctor! (1923), So This Is Golf! (1923) and Lone Tree (1929). |
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