Leroy Scott

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Leroy Scott
Scott in a 1919 ad
Born(1875-05-11)May 11, 1875
Fairmont, Indiana
DiedJuly 21, 1929(1929-07-21) (aged 54)
Merrill, New York
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter
Known forNovels, Screenplays
SpouseMiriam Finn

Leroy Scott (May 11, 1875 – July 21, 1929) was an American writer of novels and screenplays.

Biography

Scott was born in

Woman’s Home Companion
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Scott was also a social activist. After gaining experience at the

University Settlement House in New York City in 1902–03. It was there that he met—and later married on 27 June 1904—Miriam Finn,[2] a Russian Jewish writer.[3] Around this same time Scott was an officer of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, of which he was a founder.[1] After his departure from the University Settlement, Scott and his wife came to live in Greenwich Village at "A Club", a writers' cooperative housed in an old mansion on Fifth Avenue[4] that became known as a "radical center."[5]
They had one child, a daughter.

In 1906, Scott helped arrange accommodations for Maxim Gorky during his visit to the United States.[6] In 1907, Scott and his wife visited Russia.[7]

To research his book about labor relations, The Walking Delegate (1905), Scott joined the Structural Iron Workers Union.[8]

In addition to novels, Scott became involved in the movie industry, where he accumulated numerous writing credits, as well as an acting credit in one film. When Goldwyn Pictures determined a need to produce movies in New York as well as on the west coast, Scott's Partners of the Night was chosen as the first work.[9]

Scott drowned in Lake Chateaugay, near Plattsburgh, New York, on 21 July 1929.[10]

Works

  • Children of the Whirlwind
  • The Walking Delegate (1905)
  • To Him that Hath (1907)
  • The Shears of Destiny (1910)
  • Vocations, ed. William DeWitt Hyde. Hall and Locke Company. Boston. Vol. 1. The Mechanic Arts. Richard C. Maclauren ed. (1911). “Selden’s Explosion Buggy”. p. 343
  • Counsel for the Defense (1912)
  • No. 13 Washington Square (1914)
  • Graft (1915)
  • Partners of the Night (1916)
  • The Sturdy Oak; a composite novel of American politics by fourteen American authors (ch xiv) (1917)
  • Mary Regan (1918)
  • A Daughter of Two Worlds: A Novel of New York Life (1919)
  • Cordelia the Magnificent (1923)
  • The Heart of Katie O”Doone (1925)
  • Folly’s Gold (1926)
  • The Trail of Glory (1926)
  • The Living Dead Man (1929)

References

  1. ^ a b Dictionary of American Biography (Vol. VIII). 1935. p. 496.
  2. ^ Lehman, Marjorie (1 Mar 2009). "Miriam Finn Scott". Jewish Women; a comprehensive historical encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 Jan 2011.
  3. ^ Richman, George J. (1916). History of Hancock County, Indiana; its people, industries and institutions. Greenfield, IN: Wm. Mitchell Printing Co. pp. 432.
  4. ^ Schmidt, Barbara. "Mark Twain on Czars, Siberia, and the Russian Revolution". www.twainquotes.com. Retrieved 8 Aug 2023.
  5. ISBN 1-55849-502-9
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  6. ISBN 0-275-96605-4
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  7. ^ "Notable books in the presses ... Leroy Scott's To Him that Hath". The New York Times. 22 June 1907. Retrieved 20 Jan 2011.
  8. ^ "Our Own Times". The Reader. 6. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 456. 1905. Retrieved 17 Jan 2011.
  9. ^ "Goldwyn Soon Producing in East". Motion Picture News. 20–24: 3613. 15 Nov 1919. Retrieved 17 Jan 2011.
  10. ^ "Milestones". Time Magazine. 29 Jul 1929. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved 16 Jan 2011.

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