Courtney Ryley Cooper
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About
An American circus performer and author, he wrote such popular works as Here's to Crime and Ten-Thousand Public Enemies. The latter work celebrates the FBI.
Before fame
He left home at age sixteen to join the circus and worked as a clown before becoming the circus's general manager.
Trivia
He wrote the screenplay for Wild Cargo.
Family life
He committed suicide; the motivation for the act is still unclear.
Associated with
He was Annie Oakley's first biographer.
