Fitch, William Clyde. American author and playwright. Born in New York, 1865. Graduated from Amherst College, 1886, and immediately devoted himself to dramatic writing. Fitch was the author of about forty plays, of which some of the best known are: "Nathan Hale," "Barbara Frietchie," "The Climbers," "The Stubbornness of Geraldine," "The Girl with the Green Eyes," "Beau Brummell," "The Moth and the Flame," "The Cowboy and the Lady," "The Way of the World," "Betty's Finish," "The Last of the Dandies," "A Modern Match," "Her Own Way," "The Truth," "The Straight Road," and "The City." Died 1909.

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