Johnston McCulley

Emerging from a Midwestern upbringing, he graduated from Chillicothe Township High School, then entered journalism as a police reporter for The Police Gazette and later served as an Army public-affairs officer during World I. Turning to pulp fiction, he created dozens of characters, most famously Zorro, whose 1919 debut in All-Story Weekly sparked the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks silent film The Mark of… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources