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Jay Gelzer

Jay Gelzer (January 22, 1889 – June 15, 1964) was an American writer. She wrote novels and short stories, including several that were adapted into films.[1][2]

Gelzer was born in England,[3] brought to the United States as a child, and was adopted after her mother's death.[2][4] She lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where she graduated from Central High School[3] and was a member of the St. Louis Writers' Guild.[5] She later lived in Santa Monica[2] and Detroit.[6]

Gelzer's writing was published in Good Housekeeping,[7] Cosmopolitan,[8] and the New York Daily News.[9]

Her book The Street of a Thousand Delights contained eight stories about a "half-breed" in Melbourne's Chinese quarter.[10] She helped adapt her first novel Compromise, set in St Louis, into a film version for Warner Brothers (Compromise).[11]

She married Jennings Axon Glazer[12] and had two sons.

  1. ^ Smith, Geoffrey D. (August 13, 1997). American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521434690 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c Johnson, Wynonah B. (1925-08-14). "Novelist wins in hard fight". The Los Angeles Times. p. 24. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  3. ^ a b "Jay Gelzer". The St. Louis Star and Times. 1923-06-25. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  4. ^ "What women are doing: Jay Gelzer". The Los Angeles Times. 1925-06-28. p. 51. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  5. ^ "Two prominent short story writers address the Y. School of Journalism". The News-Times. 1931-08-14. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  6. ^ Mathews, Edith L. (1935-12-20). "A cosmopolite talks on life - and fiction". The St. Louis Star and Times. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  7. ^ "Good Housekeeping". 1922.
  8. ^ "Cosmopolitan". 1921.
  9. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (September 7, 1961). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series". Copyright Office, Library of Congress. – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Harrison, Joseph Barlow; Scholz, Richard Frederick; Densmore, Harvey B. (1922). "The Pacific Review".
  11. ^ "Irene Rich stars in "Compromise"". The Times Dispatch. 16 August 1925. p. 31.
  12. ^ Howes, Durward (1937). "American Women".

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