Clayton Hamilton (critic)
Clayton Meeker Hamilton (November 14, 1881[1] – September 17, 1946)[2] was an American drama critic.He edited Stevenson's Treasure Island for "Longman's English Classics" in 1910; contributed to the New International Encyclopedia and is author of Love That Blinds (1906), with Grace Isabel Colbron; Materials and Methods of Fiction (1908); The Theory of the Theatre (1910); The Stranger at the Inn (1913); Studies in Stagecraft (1914); and, with A. E. Thomas, a play, The Big Idea (1914).In 1945, Hamilton was the host and narrator on Brownstone Theater, a dramatic anthology radio series on the Mutual Broadcasting System.He was survived by his wife and sons Gordon C. Hamilton and Donald C.[2] The New York Public Library is home to the Clayton Meeker Hamilton papers, which include "his correspondence (personal and professional), diaries, lectures, plays, poetry, speeches, contracts and miscellaneous papers from 1899-1946.