Random Forgotten Author (1943)

Reblogged from my newspaper collection blog (mhill46-holdthefrontpage.blogspot.co.uk)

Sunday Graphic dated Sunday April 4^th 1943

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There must be hundreds of authors who were household names in their day, but who are now all but forgotten.

Rex Beach was an American novelist, playwright and Olympic silver medalist water-polo player (1904 St Louis) who spent 5 years in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush and wrote several very popular novels in the Jack London idiom. His second, ‘The Spoilers’, was filmed 5 times.

After the death of his wife he committed suicide in 1949.