Francis Van Wyck Mason
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About
An award-winning American historian and fiction writer, he published close to eighty novels and numerous short stories. His works include The Shanghai Bund Murders (1933), Eagle in the Sky (1948), and Emperor's Gold (1933).
Before Fame
He served as an ambulance driver in World War I, and then joined the French Army as an artilleryman. He published his first short story, The Fetish of Sergeant M’Gourra, in 1928.
Trivia
He served as President Eisenhower's Chief Historian.
Family Life
He was born to a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1928, he married Dorothy L. MacReady, a New York socialite.
Associated With
He was a contemporary of John Steinbeck, who wrote Of Mice and Men.
