John Monk Saunders

Born in Minnesota and raised in Seattle, he excelled at Broadway High School and the University of Washington before earning a Rhodes Scholarship that took him to Oxford, where he completed his degree. After serving as World War I flight instructor and working as a journalist, he sold his first story to Hollywood in 1924 and secured $39,000 for the rights to an unfinished novel that became the 192… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources