Charles Neilson Gattey was the president of the Society of Civil Service Authors in England. A successful playwright and screenwriter, his works include The White Falcon and The Eleventh Hour. A highly prolific author of romantical and historical novels, social commentary and biographies, his books include Queens of Song, In Bed with an Elephant, Luisa Tetrazzini, The Florentine Nightingale and Prophecy and Prediction in the Twentieth Century.