Joel Townsley Rogers - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Nov 22, 1896 Sedalia, Missouri, United States Died on 01 Oct 1984 (aged 87)

American writer

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About Joel Townsley Rogers

  • Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984) was an American writer who wrote science fiction, air-adventure, and mystery stories and a handful of mystery novels. Joel Townsley Rogers was born in 1896 in Sedalia, Missouri.
  • He studied at Harvard University.
  • He joined the navy air corps and became one of its first few hundred flyers.
  • He went through training in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
  • The Great War seemed an adventure to the young men of that generation.
  • Rogers was aching to go overseas, and in fact he managed to get himself in a position to do so, had the armistice not intervened.
  • He was sent to Pensacola as a flight instructor instead.
  • According to one of his letters, the planes he flew and taught others to fly were tiny pontooned biplanes made of spruce and linen. After the war he made use of his experiences and vivid imagination to sell short stories to the many pulp magazines that sold in the 1920s and 1930s for fifteen or twenty cents.His most famous novel is The Red Right Hand which was first published in 1945.
  • The book sold fairly well and was reissued several times in paperback format.
  • Besides that book, Rogers published hundreds of short stories and three other novels which were not as successful: Once in a Red Moon (1923), Lady With the Dice (1946), and The Stopped Clock (1958, reissued as Never Leave My Bed in 1963). Joel Townsley Rogers died in Washington, D.C.
  • in 1984.

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