Lawton Campbell

Charles Lawton Campbell (April 17, 1896 – 1980) was a business executive in the advertising field, a reporter, and playwright from Montgomery, Alabama. Files on Campbell are held at the Birmingham Public Library and some of his papers at Princeton University's rare book collection.

His parents were Charles L. and Myrtle (Booth) Campbell and he grew up on Sayre Street in Montgomery. He went to Sidney Lanier High School.

Campbell was part of the Triangle Club at Princeton University with F. Scott Fitzgerald and was a friend and admirer of Zelda Fitzgerald who gave him one of her paintings. A friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald from Princeton, he remained a part of their social circle after they were married. It starred Richard Bennett, Moffat Johnston, Jessie Royce Landis, Owen Davis Jr., and Bette Davis. Rouben Mamoulian directed. Solid South, performed at various venues in the Midwestern United States during the spring and summer of 1930 and in October of the same year opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. It was a three act play published in New York by S. French (1931). Gestures; a Comedy in One Act. New York (1925) The Girl Who Slipped The Bachelor Queen (1927) Isabella (1927)