Alden Brooks

Who was Alden Brooks?

Alden Brooks was an American writer, chiefly remembered for his proposal that Sir Edward Dyer wrote the works of Shakespeare.

Brooks was in born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended schools in both France and England, before graduating from Harvard University in 1905. After teaching at Harvard and as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy, he became for a time a tobacco farmer in southern Maryland. He married Hilma Chadwick, an artist, at St. Ives, Cornwell, England, on 11 July 1908, and moved to France. They had four children.