Francis Worcester Doughty

Francis Worcester Doughty (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1917) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Doughty held unorthodox views about the age of humans.

Biography Doughty was born in Brooklyn, and wrote Old King Brady dime novel stories for Frank Tousey. He wrote around 1500 novels. Doughty specialized in detective stories, and had the characteristic of repeating the title in the final sentence of the story.

In 1914, he was recruited to work on the Thanhouser serial, Zudora, writing episodes 11 to 20. Doughty was convinced that upon the flattened surfaced clay stones he had found, animal and human figures could be seen, including men with Caucasian features. He concluded that Doughty had a wild imagination by seeing in "glacial and rolled stones remains of human art, when indeed they are but the result of Earth's elements and chemical action."

Selected publications

The Cents of the United States: A Numismatic Study (1890) Evidences of Man in the Drift (1892)