Photo: Everett Collection / TT (1951)
Sample of authors
Oursler, Fulton
The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He left school at 15 and started to work as an office boy. In 1910 he got a job as a reporter on the Baltimore News American, and in the same year, aged 17, he married Rose Keller Karger. The couple had two children, of whom their son William ‘Will’ Oursler (1913–1985) became a w...
Literary figures
Bingo (Robert Emmett) Riggs
Gender: Male
Talkative, spindly small criminal, with a pointed face and mouse-coloured hair, who dreams of becoming rich – if necessary by illegal means. Robert Emmett ‘Bingo’ Riggs is a slovenly street photographer who travels around the USA in a suite of crime novels by Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) with his colleague ‘Handsome’ Kusak. Time after time they are obliged to act as detectiv...