Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932

Comfort was a southern California novelist, who ended his career as the messiah of a Hollywood cult.

American writer.

U.S. novelist and newspaperman.

Comfort was born on Jan. 17, 1878 in Kalamazoo, MI; served in the cavalry in the Spanish-American War; newspaperman in Cincinnati in the 1890s; war correspondent in the Philippines for the Detroit journal, and in Japan and Russia for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1904; published books include: Routledge rides alone (1910), Fate knocks at the door (1912), Red fleece (1915), The autobiographical Midstream : a chronicle at halfway (1914), and Apache (1931); from South Pasadena, CA he issued two periodicals, The glass hive and Reconstruction letters, which were chiefly concerned with spiritualism; he died on Nov. 2, 1932.

Biography

Comfort was born on January 17, 1878 in Kalamazoo, Michigan; served in the cavalry in the Spanish-American War; newspaperman in Cincinnati in the 1890s; war correspondent in the Philippines for the Detroit Journal, and in Japan and Russia for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1904; published books include: Routledge Rides Alone (1910), Fate Knocks at the Door (1912), Red Fleece (1915), The Autobiographical Midstream: a Chronicle at Halfway (1914), and Apache (1931); from South Pasadena, California he issued two periodicals, The Glass Hive and Reconstruction Letters, which were chiefly concerned with spiritualism; he died on November 2, 1932.