Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932

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Dates:

Birth 1878-02-17

Death 1932-11-02

Biographical notes:

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

From the description of Papers, 1910-1932. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 155180744

American writer.

From the description of Letter, 1928 May 19, South Pasadena, Calif., to Perry Walton. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907503

U.S. novelist and newspaperman.

From the description of Correspondence, 1920-1924. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 86141834

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.

From the description of Papers, 1910-1932. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39743713

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.

From the guide to the Will Levington Comfort Papers, 1910-1932, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)