Biografía

24 de marzo de 1908 · San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos

18 de septiembre de 1964 · Studio City, California, Estados Unidos (un ictus)

Had a horse named Prince and he would often be seen riding through Griffith Park dressed as a cowboy.

His most famous pulp stories appeared in Dime Detective Magazine. His 'Steve Midnight' character was a taxi driver, who "rode through the fog and the rain of sinister Los Angeles" in his Red Owl cab.

Suffered a broken back in 1964 from a riding accident.

He was an enthusiastic pulp fiction writer, selling 11 stories to Black Mask, creating hugely popular characters such as Steven Middleton Knight (AKA Steve Midnight) and Rod Case. His stories also appeared in Dime Detective, Double Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly.

A life-long Californian, he entered the film industry during sound transition period of the late 1920s as a script reader for Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures.