‏Cleves Kinkead‏

Cleves Kinkead worked as a newspaper reporter for the Louisville Post before joining his father's law firm (1905-1913) and later serving a short stint in the Kentucky House of Representatives. His best known work, "Common Clay", which was given the Harvard Prize Play Award, was written in 1913 after he had left his father's law firm and was attending classes at Harvard University.

Cleves Kinkead was born on 4 March, 1882 in Louisville, Ky., the second of four children born to Robert C. and Julia Grinstead Kinkead. He later married Katherine S. Patch of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.