About

Robert William Chambers (1865–1933) was one of America's most popular authors of his time. An early interest in art was eventually turned into a writing career, and his first book, In the Quarter, was based on Chambers's experiences in France as an art student. Its success was sufficient to encourage him to try a second book, The King in Yellow (1895), which turned out to be an instant success and set Chambers on a writing career which lasted forty years. The King in Yellow has been described as the most important work of American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns.