Lewis, Herbert Clyde

LC control no.	no 95008466
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lewis, Herbert Clyde *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	China Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Birth date	1909-08-15
Death date	1950-10-17
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Novelists Reporters and reporting
Found in	Don Juan Quilligan [MP] 1945: credits (from a story by Herbert Clyde Lewis) Gentleman overboard, 2021: title page (Herbert Clyde Lewis) Wikipedia, September 29, 2023 (Herbert Clyde Lewis; Herbert Clyde Lewis (15 August 1909 - 17 October 1950) was an American novelist; Lewis was born in New York City; he lived in China, working as a reporter on the Shanghai Evening Post in 1930 and on The China Press, Shanghai, in 1931 and 1932; he worked as a reporter for the New York Journal, but quit to work as an independent writer; although he sold several stories to Esquire, he was forced to declare bankruptcy by the time he sold his first novel, Gentleman Overboard, to the Viking Press in 1937; he moved to Hollywood and worked as a scenario writer for MGM in 1937, but returned to reporting, joining the news staff of the New York Herald Tribune in 1942; he returned to Hollywood after 20th Century Fox bought the film rights to his story,Two-Faced Qulligan; his most notable accomplishment in Hollywood was his story The Fifth Avenue Story, which was filmed in 1947 as It Happened on 5th Avenue; Lewis suffered a nervous breakdown in 1948 and was unable to work for a year after; he returned to New York in 1949 and was working as a contributing editor of Time magazine when he died of a heart attack)
Associated language	eng