Marion Polk Angellotti

Marion Polk Angellotti (12 November 1887 – April 1975)[1] was an American author.

Marion Polk Angellotti

Writings

She wrote short stories for pulp magazines such as Adventure,[2] including several based on 14th-century condottiere John Hawkwood. Her novel The Firefly of France, based on the life of Georges Guynemer, was adapted to a film. [3]

Her other novels are Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy, The Three Bags, The Burgundian: A Tale of Old France, and Harlette (which is a retelling of her short story "When the Devil Ruled", which had been published in the April 1913 edition of The Smart Set magazine).

Personal life

Her father was judge Frank M. Angellotti. Angellotti served as a volunteer with the American Red Cross in France during the First World War.[3]

She died in 1975, and was buried in Bellevue Memorial Park, Ontario, California.[4]

Notes
  1. "Marion Polk Angellotti". Pulp Flakes. 26 April 2012.
  2. Contento, William G.; Stephensen-Payne, Phil (eds.). "Stories, Listed by Author: Angellotti, Marion Polk". The FictionMags Index.
  3. Lawrence Ellsworth, The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2014. ISBN 1605987204 (p.413)
  4. Marion Angellotti at Find a Grave



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