Marion Polk Angellotti

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Marion Polk Angellotti

Marion Polk Angellotti (November 12, 1887 – April 1979)[1] was an American author.

Writings[edit]

She wrote short stories for pulp magazines such as Adventure,[2] including several based on 14th-century condottiere John Hawkwood. Her novel The Firefly of France, based on the life of Georges Guynemer, was adapted to a film. [3]

Her other novels are Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy, The Three Bags, The Burgundian: A Tale of Old France, and Harlette (which is a retelling of her short story "When the Devil Ruled", which had been published in the April 1913 edition of The Smart Set magazine).

Personal life[edit]

The daughter of Frank M. Angellotti, a judge, and his wife, Emma Cornelia Cearley (sometimes mistranscribed as Clearey), Marion Polk Angellotti served as a volunteer canteen worker with the American Red Cross from 1918 to 1919, being with an evacuation hospital during the Saint Michel offensive, and with the Army of Occupation in Germany.[3]

She died in April 1979, aged 91, and was buried in Bellevue Memorial Park, Ontario, California.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Marion Polk Angellotti". Pulp Flakes. April 26, 2012.
  2. ^ Contento, William G.; Stephensen-Payne, Phil (eds.). "Stories, Listed by Author: Angellotti, Marion Polk". The FictionMags Index.
  3. ^ a b Lawrence Ellsworth, The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2014. ISBN 1605987204 (p.413)

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