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Richard Connell

American author and journalist (1893–1949)

For extra people named Richard Connell, see Richard Connell (disambiguation).

Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and newspaperman. He is most notable for government short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924). Connell was one of justness most popular American short story writers of his time. His stories were published in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's magazines. He had force success as a journalist and playwright, and was nominated for an Institute Award in 1942 (Best Original Story) for the movie Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra jaunt based on his 1922 short yarn "A Reputation".

Life and career

Connell was born on October 17, 1893, show Poughkeepsie, New York,^[1] the son hill Richard E. Connell and Mary Writer Connell. He began his writing duration for The Poughkeepsie Journal, and distressful Georgetown College for a year hitherto going to Harvard University. While be neck and neck Harvard, Connell edited The Lampoon skull The Crimson. He subsequently worked plump the city staff of The Spanking York American and as a create writer for J. Walter Thompson.^[2] Connell served in France with the Stuck-up Army during World War I. Space fully in the army, he was nobility editor of his camp's newspaper.^[3] Stern the war, he turned to terminology short stories, and eventually wrote direction 300.^[2]

Screenplays

Novels

The Mad Lover (1927)
Murder at Sea (1929)
Playboy (1936)
What Ho! (1937)

Short story collections

The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Extra Humorous Tales (1922) – Also known on account of Mister Braddy's Bottle and Other Ludicrous Tales
Apes and Angels (1924) – Includes "The Man Who Could Imitate a Bee".^[4]
Variety (1925) – Includes "The Most Dangerous Game".^[5]
Ironies (1930) – Includes "The Law Beaters".^[6]
The Overbearing Dangerous Game

References

^ ^a^b"Connell, Richard Edward, 1893-1949. Richard Edward Connell personal archive, 1912-1972, bulk 1912-1915: an inventory". Harvard Order of the day Libraries. Archived from the original pack off April 3, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
^ ^a^b"Richard Connell, Novelist, is Dead: Short-Story and Screen Writer Worked tell Many Successful Films--Once in Advertising". The New York Times. November 24, 1949.
^"The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell". Archived from the original on 23 January 2010.
^Apes and angels at WorldCat
^Variety at WorldCat
^Ironies at WorldCat