Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley (born 2 February 1883 in Ottawa, Illinois, † November 23, 1958 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American writer.

Life

McCulley grew up in Chillicothe (Illinois ) and, after his school days as a journalist at the Police Gazette. During World War II he served as a press officer in the U.S. Army. Already from this period his first literary attempts. His stories usually appeared in pulp magazines, usually under pseudonyms such as Raley Brien, George Drayne, Monica Morton, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, Rowena Raley, John Mack Stone and Harrison Strong. Some of his stories and novels have been made ​​into a film and also served as a template for radio plays.

As McCulley very interested in the history of his homeland, he used this again and again as a base or background of his stories and novels. Today known are his protagonists Zorro, Black Star and the Crimson Clown.

Johnston McCulley died ten weeks before his 76th birthday in Hollywood (Los Angeles ) and found his final resting place in the cemetery Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Los Angeles County).

Works (selection)

• Crutch Brigade., 1944.
• Death plays Santa Clausd. , 1945.
• Demons of disaster. , 1946.
• The stolen story. , 1919.
• A Texan rides the trouble way. , 1943.

• The Mark of Zorro.
• Zorro of the pirate raiders.
• Zorro rides again.

• The curse of Capistrano. , 1919.
• The spider strains. , 1919.
• Zorro rides again. In 1931.
• Zorro hurts a jackal. , 1933.

Films

• Author
• Americans
• Zorro
• Born in 1883
• Died in 1958
• Man