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Nell Martin
script_department, writer
- Birth name:
- Nellie Columbia Boyer
- Born:
- 1887-05-27, Illinois, USA
- Died:
- 1961
- Professions:
- script_department, writer
Biography
Born in Illinois, and working as a strawberry picker in Missouri by the age of ten. Called herself a "Jill-of-all-trades," as she worked as a newspaper reporter, taxi-cab driver, lawyer's assistant, laundry worker, and press agent before she became a writer. Author of over 200 short stories and eight novels. Originator of the Maisie stories which later starred Ann Sothern. One time lover of Dashiell Hammett: he dedicated The Glass Key (1930) to her. Friend of Earl Stanley Gardner, Don Blanding and Lon Chaney, Sr.
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Written (1)
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