Leroy Scott
| Leroy Scott | |
|---|---|
 Scott in a 1919 ad | |
| Born |
May 11, 1875 Fairmont, Indiana |
| Died |
July 21, 1929 (aged 54) Merrill, New York |
| Nationality | U.S.A. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Novels, Screenplays |
| Spouse(s) | Miriam Finn |
Leroy Scott (1875–1929) was an American writer of novels and screenplays. He was born in Fairmount, Indiana 11 May 1875. His father was a minister with the Religious Society of Friends. He graduated from Indiana University in 1897. His writing career began with three years experience as a reporter; he worked at a Louisiana newspaper owned by his brother.[1] Later (1900–01) he became assistant editor of the Woman’s Home Companion.
Scott was a social activist. In 1902–3 he was assistant headworker at the University Settlement House. It is there that he met and later married on 27 Jun 1904 Miriam Finn,[2] a Russian Jewish writer,[3] with whom he had a daughter. Around this time Scott was an officer of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, of which he was a founder.[1] Scott had come to University Settlement after Hull House experience. After his settlement experience, Scott and his wife came to live at the "A-Club", a cooperative, and a "radical center." [4]
In 1906, Scott helped arrange accommodations for Maxim Gorky during his visit to the United States.[5] In 1907 Scott and his wife visited Russia.[6]
To research his book about labor relations, The Walking Delegate (1905), Scott Joined the Structural Iron Workers Union.[7]
In addition to novels, Scott became involved in the movie industry, where he accumulated numerous writing credits, as well as an acting credit in one film. When Goldwyn Pictures determined a need to produce movies in New York as well as on the west coast, Scott's Partners of the Night was chosen as the first work.[8]
Scott drowned in Lake Chateaugay, near Plattsburg, New York on 21 July 1929.[9]
Works
- Children of the whirlwind
- The walking delegate (1905)
- To him that hath (1907)
- The shears of destiny (1910)
- Vocations, ed. William DeWitt Hyde. Hall and Locke Company. Boston. Vol. 1. The Mechanic Arts. Richard C. Maclauren ed. (1911). “Selden’s Explosion Buggy”. p. 343
- Counsel for the defense (1912)
- No. 13 Washington Square (1914)
- Graft (1915)
- Partners of the night (1916)
- The Sturdy Oak; a composite novel of American politics by fourteen American authors (ch xiv) (1917)
- Mary Regan (1918)
- A daughter of two worlds; a novel of New York life (1919)
- Cordelia the Magnificent (1923)
- The heart of Katie O”Doone (1925)
- Folly’s Gold (1926)
- The Trail of Glory (1926)
- The living dead man (1929)
References
- 1 2 Dictionary of American Biography (Vol. VIII). 1935. p. 496.
- ↑ Lehman, Marjorie (1 Mar 2009). "Miriam Finn Scott". Jewish Women; a comprehensive historical encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 Jan 2011.
- ↑ Richman, George J. (1916). History of Hancock County, Indiana; its people, industries and institutions. Greenfield, IN: Wm. Mitchell Printing Co. p. 432.
- ↑ McFarland, Gerald W. (2001). Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 127. ISBN 1-55849-502-9.
- ↑ Yedlin, Tovah (1999). Maxim Gorky: a political biography. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 0-275-96605-4.
- ↑ "Notable books in the presses ... Leroy Scott’s To Him that Hath". The New York Times. 22 June 1907. Retrieved 20 Jan 2011.
- ↑ "Our Own Times". The Reader (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company) 6: 456. 1905. Retrieved 17 Jan 2011.
- ↑ "Goldwyn Soon Producing in East". Motion Picture News. 20-24: 3613. 15 Nov 1919. Retrieved 17 Jan 2011.
- ↑ "Milestones". Time Magazine. 29 Jul 1929. Retrieved 16 Jan 2011.
External links
- Works by Leroy Scott at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Leroy Scott at Internet Archive
- "Leroy Scott". IMDB. The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 16 Jan 2011.
- Schmidt, Barbara. "Mark Twain on czars, Siberia, and the Russian Revolution". Retrieved 16 Jan 2011.
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