James Oliver Curwood

Born June 12, 1878· Owosso, Michigan, USA

† Died August 13, 1927

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Emerging from Owosso, Michigan, the youngest of four children, he entered the University of Michigan’s English department after passing the entrance exam, but left after two years to pursue journalism in Detroit. A 1907 commission from the Canadian government sent him into the Hudson Bay, Yukon and Alaskan wilderness, experiences that fueled a prolific output of twenty-eight adventure novels, two… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources