Henry Cuyler Bunner

Henry Cuyler Bunner (August 3, 1855 – May 11, 1896) was an American novelist, journalist and poet. He is known mainly for "Tower of Babel".
Bunner's works have been praised by librarians for its "technical dexterity, playfulness and smoothness of finish".
Biography.
Henry Cuyler Bunner was born in Oswego, New York to Rudolph Bunner, Jr. (1813–1875) and Ruth Keating Tuckerman (1821–1896) and was educated in New York City. His paternal grandparents were Rudolph Bunner (1779–1837) and Elizabeth Church (1783–1867), the daughter of John Barker Church (1748–1818) and Angelica Schuyler (1756–1 Arcady and Elsewhere" (1884), containing the well-known poem, "The Way to A ready; Rowen" (1892); and "Poems" (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews, displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship. He also wrote clever "vers de société" and parodies. One of his several plays (usually written in collaboration), was "The Tower of Babel" (1883).
His short story "Zenobia's Infidelity" was made into a feature film called "Zenobia" starring Harry Langdon and Oliver Hardy by the Hal Roach Studio in 1939.
Personal life.
Bunner married Alice Learned (1863–1952), daughter of Joshua Coit Learned (1819–1892), and granddaughter of Joshua Coit (1758–1798), U.S. Representative from Connecticut. Together, they had:
Bunner died on May 11, 1896 in Nutley, New Jersey.