John Russell (22 April 1885 - 6 March 1956) was an American writer and
screenwriter
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.
Biography
Born in
Davenport, Iowa
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, in 1885, Russell wrote for the New York City News Association news agency, and then for the
New York Tribune
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. ''
The Pagan'' was based on one of his stories, and he wrote the screenplay for ''
Beau Geste
''Beau Geste'' is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a r ...
''.
As author he was best known for his short stories, originally written for a wide range of magazines and newspapers, and then collected in books. He also wrote ''The Society Wolf'', published in 1910, which was written under the pen name Luke Thrice. Other pseudonyms include Edward Rutledge, Andrew Peirce, George Jerry Osborn and Matthew Primus.
Russell died in
Santa Monica, California
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in 1956.
Books
* ''The Society Wolf'' writing as Luke Thrice, illustrated by
W. H. Loomis and
Modest Stein. New York, Cupples & Leon, 1910.
* ''The Red Mark and Other Stories'',
Alfred A. Knopf
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, 1919
* ''Where the Pavement Ends'', Alfred A. Knopf, 1921 (new edition of The Red Mark now using the title from the U. K. edition)
* ''In Dark Places'', Alfred A. Knopf, 1923
* ''Far Wandering Men'', W. W. Norton, 1929
* ''Cops 'N Robbers'', W. W. Norton, 1930
Partial filmography
* ''
Where the Pavement Ends'' (1923)
* ''
The Exiles'' (1923)
* ''
Mademoiselle Midnight'' (1924)
* ''
The Iron Horse'' (1924)
* ''
Dangerous Money'' (1924)
* ''
Argentine Love'' (1924)
* ''
The Little French Girl'' (1925)
* ''
The Crowded Hour'' (1925)
* ''
The Street of Forgotten Men'' (1925)
* ''
Lord Jim'' (1925)
* ''
Beau Geste
''Beau Geste'' is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a r ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Sorrows of Satan
''The Sorrows of Satan'' is an 1895 Faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first best-sellers – partly due to an upheaval in the system British libraries used to purchase their books, and partly due to it ...
'' (1926)
* ''
God Gave Me Twenty Cents'' (1926)
* ''
The Red Mark'' (1928)
* ''
The Pagan'' (1929)
* ''
'' (1929)
* ''
Girl of the Port'' (1930)
* ''
The Sea God'' (1930)
* ''
Frankenstein
''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a Sapience, sapient Frankenstein's monster, crea ...
'' (1931)
References
External links
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N C Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Luke Thrice and the Seamless Web
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1885 births
1956 deaths
Writers from Davenport, Iowa
Screenwriters from Iowa
American male screenwriters
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
20th-century American short story writers
New-York Tribune people