Thorne Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thorne Smith

an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1892

Place of Birth: Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1934

Profession: screenwriter, writer, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Thorne Smith

  • James Thorne Smith, Jr.
  • (March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.
  • He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and ghosts.
  • With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s. Smith drank as steadily as his characters; his appearance in James Thurber's The Years with Ross involves an unexplained week-long disappearance.
  • When asked why he hadn't called-in sick, he retorted, "The telephone was in the hall and there was a draft." .
  • Smith was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a Navy commodore, and attended Dartmouth College.
  • Following hungry years in Greenwich Village, working part-time as an advertising agent, Smith achieved meteoric success with the publication of Topper in 1926.
  • He was an early resident of Free Acres, a social experimental community developed by Bolton Hall according to the economic principles of Henry George in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
  • He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida.

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