Grant Carpenter

Grant Carpenter (1865–1936) was a newspaperman, attorney, and writer, and twin brother of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson.

As a youth, Carpenter worked as an apprentice to a printer, and later as a newspaper reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. and after earning his law degree, became an attorney for the Chinese Six Companies in San Francisco, and later served as an Assistant District Attorney. He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild and vice-president of the Authors League of America, now the Authors Guild. He married first Sophia Storm, with whom he had two children. He married second to pianist and singer Mercedes Woodford, whose father was a mining engineer for the Kimberley diamond mines in South Africa.