Rex Ellingwood Beach
Description
Born in Michigan, USA, a lawyer, then a gold prospector in the Klondike for five years, then a writer with a successful first novel based on his Alaskan experience, from which several films were made. He also won a Olympic silver medal in water polo (Wikipedia).
Books
The ne'er-do-well
It was a crisp November night. The artificial brilliance of Broadway was rivalled by a glorious moonlit sky. The first autumn frost was in the air, and on the side-streets long rows of taxicabs were standing, their motors blanketed, their chauffeurs threshing their arms to rout the cold. A few well-bundled cabbies, perched upon old-style hansoms, were barking at the stream of hurrying pedestrians.
The Auction Block
Depicts New York City's politicians and financiers and their dealings with the stage (review).
The Silver Horde
In a series: The Collected Works of Rex Ellingwood Beach.
The barrier
Frontispiece and 5pp. illustration, all in mild color
Heart of the Sunset
A romance set around an area of the Rio Grande in the context of U.S./Mexico conflict. Made into a film in 1918.
Son of the Gods
Set mainly in New York, this book is more a description of the attitude of other Americans to Chinese Americans than a romance. It describes the progress of the young central figure, Sam Lee, from his college days through to his acceptance in marriage. It was made into a film in 1930.
Librivox Short Story Collection 054
Aunt Nell George A. Birmingham The Cat and Cupid Arnold Bennett Chu-Bu and Sheemish Lord Dunsany The District Doctor Ivan Turgenev The Eagle's Nest Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson The Indigent Brahman Lal Behari Dey The Missing Mortgagee R. Austin Freeman Oliver Twist, Chapter IX Charles Dickens The Pawnshop Keeper Margery Verner Reed A Respectable Woman Kate Chopin A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry The Slaughter of an Ox at Sea Pierre Loti The Survivors Elsie Singmaster The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany The Undertaker's Chat Mark Twain Up the Slide Jack London The Upturned Face Stephen Crane War Jack London The Weight Of Obligation Rex Beach When Lincoln Licked A Bully Irving Bacheller
The Net
A romance set in Sicily and Louisiana in the context of the Mafiosi (more).