Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was an American writer and artist, born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied art at the Art Students League in New York and then for several years in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, and on his return worked as an illustrator for magazines including Life and Vogue. His first book, In the Quarter (1894), drew on his student years in Paris, and the following year he published The King in Yellow, whose linked tales of a forbidden play became a landmark of weird fiction. Chambers soon turned away from the supernatural to historical novels, many set during the American Revolution, and then to a long series of romantic society novels that made him one of the best-selling and highest-paid American authors of the early twentieth century. He published more than seventy books, and died in New York in 1933.
