Volunteers for the Spanish–American War including many Cuban cigar workers from Tampa, Florida in 1898

Gilson Willets (August 10, 1869 - 1922) was a journalist, author, and screenwriter in the United States. He was born in Hempstead, New York. He wrote for Leslie's Weekly, Collier's Weekly and many other publications. He covered the Spanish–American War in Cuba. He traveled widely before becoming a production manager for Pathé. His work includes several film serials.

As a journalist, he covered a plague in India and E. H. Harriman's Harriman Scientific Expedition to Alaska. He was described as the American Guy de Maupassant for his terse writing style.

He wrote about New Mexico in 1905.

He married Daisy Van Der Veer and his son was named Gilson Vander Veer Willets.

Bibliography

  • His Neighbor's Wife
  • Anita, Cuban Spy
  • The Triumph of Yankee Doodle
  • Workers of the Nation
  • The Commercial Invasion of Europe
  • Inside History of the White House
  • Rulers of the World at Home
  • The Loves of Twenty and One (1899)
  • Myster of the Double Cross

Filmography