Charles Neville Buck

Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 – August 10, 1957) was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era. He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. and wrote Under the Sun about the Inca period. His maternal grandfather was dean of the University of Kentucky Medical School. Buck graduated from the University of Louisville in 1898. Several of his novels include illustrations by various artists.

His work includes yarns about the mountain men of Kentucky and their traditions.

He worked for a year as a cartoonist and then for about a decade as reporter in Kentucky. He moved to New York City after finding success as a writer. He married and acquired a vacation home in Orleans in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.