Isabel Johnston
writer
- Born:
- 1898-07-16, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Born in Pennsylvania the same year Ulysses S. won the White House, Isabel M. Johnston reached Hollywood by 1918—already fifty and ready to swap school-room primers for title-card prose. Within a decade she stitched together roughly twelve screen stories, while her two daughters—Agnes (1896) and the younger Isabel (1899)—followed her ink trail straight onto the studio payroll. In 1920 the trio set up house at 1911 Pinehurst Road, a modest bungalow that rubbed shoulders with an odd literary canyon: Edgar Rice Burroughs was two doors up (2029) birthing Tarzan in the treetops; art director Wilfred Buckland (2035) would one day end his family’s tragedy in gunfire; and at the cul-de-sac Carrie Jacobs Bond coined “I Love You Truly” in a retreat grandly christened The End of the Road.
