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Charles O. Locke


Born
September 29, 1895

Died
May 01, 1977

Genre
Fiction


Charles O. Locke was an American author best known for his novels of the West. The scion of a newspaper family, he was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and graduated from Yale University. Locke began his career as a reporter at the Toledo Blade and before long moved to New York City, where he wrote for a number of newspapers, including the New York Post and the New York World-Telegram. Like many, he fell in love not only with the city but with its huge public library and access to the world of theater. He composed songs and libretti for stage shows, wrote plays for radio programs, and joined a local theater group, for which he wrote, directed, and performed, sometimes in his own plays. He was also a writer for such well-known figures of the 1930s as F ...more

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“I began to see how it was. I began to see there is a system in the world, and that people like the Boyds have it fixed for you and keep it fixed. If you have something worthwhile they will take it from you, for I had heard the Boyds early worked that way when the country was new. But if you have nothing worthwhile they will take even that, if they are a mind to.”
― Charles O. Locke, The Hell Bent Kid
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