Biography
Moll was born on March 20, 1907 in New York City; attended the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago; became a screenwriter for Samuel Goldwyn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Twentieth Century-Fox, as well as a television writer; contributed short stories to various magazines; published works include Night without sleep (1950), Seidman and Son (1958), Memoir of spring (1961), Mr. Seidman and the geisha (1962), Image of Tallie (1964), and The perilous spring of Morris Seidman (1972).
From the guide to the Elick Moll Papers, 1957-1964, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)