MacGrath started his career as a reporter/columnist for the Syracuse Herald. In 1899, he published his first novel, Arms and the Woman, which was successful enough to convince him to continue. His next book, The Puppet Crown (1901), made the best-seller list and firmly established MacGrath. Over the next few years, he contributed short stories and articles to periodicals such as Red Book Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies Home Journal. In 1912, he became a screenwriter for the American Film Company and over the ensuing years eighteen of his novels and three of his short stories were made into films. MacGrath became very wealthy and travelled the world, but always returned to his country estate in Syracuse, where he died in 1932. His other works include The Grey Cloak (1903), The Man On the Box (1904), The Goose Girl (1909), Parrot and Company (1913), The Million Dollar Mystery (1915), The Voice in the Fog (1915), The Drums of Jeopardy (1920), The Ragged Edge (1922), The Green Stone (1924), The Wolves of Chaos (1929) and The Other Passport (1931). |
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