John Russell (screenwriter)

John Russell (1885 - 6 March 1956) was an American author and screenwriter.

He wrote for the New York City News Association news agency, and then for the New York Tribune. The Pagan was based on one of his stories, and he wrote the screenplay for Beau Geste.^[1]

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 was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1885 and died in Santa Monica, California 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, 1919
• Where the Pavements Ends, Alfred A. Knopf, 1921
• In Dark Places, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923
• Far wandering men, W. W. Norton, 1929

References

1. "John Russell, 71, Author, Scenarist". New York Times. 8 March 1956. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

External links

• Works by John Russell at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about John Russell at Internet Archive
• Works by John Russell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• John Russell at the Internet Movie Database
• N C Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Luke Thrice and the Seamless Web