Stephen Gould Fisher was born in Marine City, Michigan and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Oneonta Military Academy until age sixteen when he left to join the U.S. Navy. He served in the submarine service for four years, during which time he wrote stories which he sold to U.S. Navy and Our Navy.
After he left the Navy, he moved to Greenwich Village, New York to write full-time. In 1934, he published his first story, “Hell’s Scoop,” in Sure-Fire Detective Magazine.
He wrote for the pulps into the 1950s. He also crossed over into slick magazines such as Liberty, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan. He moved to Hollywood to work on screenplays and novels. He died of a heart attack at his home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles at age 67.
American screenwriter (1912-1980)
Born | 29 August 1912 |
Died | 27 March 1980 |
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American screenwriter (1912-1980)
Born | 29 August 1912 |
Died | 27 March 1980 |
Subjects
Drama, Fiction, Casinos, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, thrillers, general, Insurance investigators, Investigation, Las vegas (nev.), fiction, Man-woman relationships, Married people, Murder, Swindlers and swindlingID Numbers
- OLID: OL774724A
- ISNI: 000000007730058X
- VIAF: 49291195
- Wikidata: Q3498927
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q3498927
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Alternative names
- Stephen Gould
- Grant Lane
- Stephen Gould Fisher
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