George Barr McCutcheon

Biography

George Barr McCutcheon (1866–1928) was an American novelist and playwright who achieved enormous popular success with Graustark (1901) and Brewster's Millions (1902). McCutcheon was one of the best-selling American authors of the early twentieth century. Brewster's Millions, about a man who must spend a million dollars in order to inherit seven million, became one of the most adapted novels in history, filmed at least thirteen times. McCutcheon also wrote a series of popular novels set in the fictional European kingdom of Graustark. He lived most of his life in Indiana before moving to New York.