Thorne Smith was born in 1893 in Annapolis, Maryland, and educated at Locust Dale Academy in Virginia and St Luke’s School in Wayne, Pennsylvania. His first job was in a New York advertising agency, which he left to join the navy in the First World War. During his service he rose to the rank of bosun’s mate and edited the service paper, Broadside, in which his humorous characters first appeared. After the war he had some difficulty in making his way before his series of farcical novels became established, when many films were based on them.
He lived in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters and spent much time in New York before going in 1933 to Hollywood, where he wrote dialogue for Metro Goldwyn-Mayer. He died in 1934.
(Text taken from the 1957 Penguin edition of The Night Life of the Gods. He was actually born 27 March 1892)
- Year Title [Swedish Title] Comment
- 1918 Biltmore Oswald (The Diary of a Hapless Recruit)
- 1919 Out o’ Luck (Biltmore Oswald Very Much At Sea)
- 1919 Haunts and By-Paths
- 1926 Topper (An Improbable Adventure) [Topper]
- 1927 Dream’s End
- 1929 The Stray Lamb
- 1931 Lazy Bear Lane
- 1931 The Night Life of the Gods
- 1931 Turnabout
- 1932 Did She Fall?
- 1932 Topper Takes a Trip [Topper tar en tripp]
- 1932 The Bishop’s Jaegers
- 1933 Rain in the Doorway
- 1933 Skin and Bones
- 1934 The Glorious Pool
- 1941 The Passionate Witch Finished by Norman Matson
In 1921 Thorne Smith contributed a chapter on advertising to a book entitled "Civilization in the United States".
He also wrote a short story for Esquire Magazine in 1934 (Vol. I, No. 3) entitled "Yonder’s Henry" which was reprinted in a collection called "The Bedside Esquire".
More about Smith
Chalmers / Rutgers (same information)
Original list by Staffar Moberg, additions by Teresa Knox and "brodys".
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[Johan Blixt]
27 maj 2006 / Johan Blixt / johan@jblixt.se
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