Guy Bolton

Guy Reginald Bolton was a British American playwright and writer of musical comedies. He was born in Broxbourne, England to Reginald Pelham an American engineer and Kate Behenna. His family moved to New York in the United States where Bolton trained as an architect at the Atelier Maqueray and the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. He would also study at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. As an architect, he was successful early on in his career as he designed the rebuild of the Upper West Side Manhattan Ansonia Hotel. He was contracted by the US government to rebuild and redesign the Soldiers and Sailors Monument and the Military Academy at West Point. Even as he trained as an architect, he soon turned to a career in writing. He collaborated with several English writers the most prominent of which were George Middleton, George Grossmith Jr., and P.G. Wodehouse.